[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D?ARTISTE]. ?? [DE LA MORE PRESS]. [THO...

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Mar 13, 2021

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  [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D?ARTISTE]. ?? [DE LA MORE PRESS]. [THOMAS, Percy (1729?1811)]. The Percy Folio of Old English Ballads and Romances. London: The De La More Press, 1905?10. 4 volumes, folio (292 x 229 mm). Engraved ?King?s Library? series title after Blanche McManus, titles printed in red and black with engraved portrait vignettes. Full dark blue levant bordered in elaborate gilt tooling of alternating scallops and floral buds, 5 raised bands, gilt titles and framing in compartments, all edges gilt, dentelle turn?ins, gilt stamped by Zaehnsdorf (light rubbing to spine ends). LIMITED EDITION, number 249 of 320 copies printed on hand?made paper. AN ATTRACTIVE SET and the fourth title in the De La More Press Folios series published by Alexander Moring and from the ?King?s Library? series edited by Israel Gollancz. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.
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