Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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[ST. DOMINIC?S PRESS]. PRUDEN, Dustan. Silversmithing: Its Principles & Practice in Small Workshops. Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic?s Press, 1933. Small 8vo. Several woodcut vignettes. Contemporary half sheepskin with geometric designs stamped in blind over beige buckram, spine lettered in gilt (spine a bit darkened). POSSIBLY THE UNIQUE BINDING MENTIONED IN TAYLOR & SEWELL. LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies printed by Hilary Pepler?s press whom Will Ransom called ?a center of ideas and craftsmanship and wood?engravings? for 21 years (1916?1937) that included some of Eric Gill?s earliest woodcuts. Ransom?s Checklist 105, p. 56; Taylor & Sewell 131.