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[Horne, Herbert Percy, and Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, eds.], THE CENTURY GUILD HOBBY
HORSE, NO. 6 (London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co., April
1887). First edition, 31.5 x 23.5cm (4to), in publisher's printed
paper wraps w/engraved design & title (by Selwin Image) to fr.
cover & printed device to rear, deckle edges, [43-46] 47-80,
[1-6 Century Guild adverts] unopened pp. + sepia photogravure frontis
of Priscilla and Aquila by Frederic James Shields, w/essay on
Arthur Burgess by John Ruskin (incl. 3 interleaved plates), &
several head & tailpieces. Printed on handmade paper at
the Chiswick Press, London. Binding Very Good (lt. soiling &
foxing); contents Near-Fine (edges sl. soiled). Colbeck 6
(p.987). (Inv. #674) C$250 |
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[Horne, Herbert Percy, and Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, eds.], THE CENTURY GUILD HOBBY
HORSE, NO. 7 (London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co., July
1887). First edition, 31.5 x 23.5cm (4to), in publisher's printed
paper wraps w/engraved design & title (by Selwin Image) to fr.
cover & printed device to rear, deckle edges, [79-81] 82-120,
[1-10 Century Guild adverts] pp. + photogravure frontis of Canticum
Canticorum by Edward Burne-Jones. This issue includes H.P.
Horne's "Thoughts Towards a Criticism of the Works of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti" (w/photogravure plate of DGR's Miss Siddall Drawing
Rossetti), a plate of & note on William Blake's Sibylline
Leaf, & several head & tailpieces. Printed on
handmade paper at the Chiswick Press, London. Binding Very Good
(spine & edges of fr. cover a bit soiled, w/expert repairs to
extremities); contents Near-Fine (fore-edge of 1 leaf mended).
Fredeman 27.14, Fennell 331, Colbeck 6 (p.987). (Inv. #675)
C$250 |
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[Horne, Herbert Percy, and Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, eds.], THE CENTURY GUILD HOBBY
HORSE, NO. 16 (London: The Chiswick Press, October 1889).
First edition, 31.5 x 23.5cm (4to), in publisher's printed paper wraps
w/engraved design & title (by Selwin Image) to fr. cover &
printed device to rear, deckle edges, [119-120] 121-160 [161-162], [1-2
Century Guild adverts] unopened pp. + sepia photogravure frontis of The
Vision of Britomart by Frederic James Shields, w/repr. of 2 pp.
from The Book of Hours, & several head & tailpieces
from designs by H.P. Horne. Printed on handmade paper by the
publisher. Binding Good (tips of spine worn, & closed tear to
bottom of fr. cover); contents Near-Fine. Colbeck 6
(p.987). (Inv. #677) C$250 |
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[Mackmurdo, Arthur Heygate, ed.], THE
CENTURY GUILD HOBBY HORSE, NO. 25 (London: The Chiswick Press,
January 1892). First edition, 31.5 x 23.5cm (4to), in publisher's
printed paper wraps w/engraved design & title (by Selwin Image) to
fr. cover & printed device to rear, deckle edges, [i-ii] 1-40 pp. +
sepia photogravure frontis of a drawing by Peter Lely, & several
head & tailpieces from designs by H.P. Horne. This issue
includes the 1st printing of William Morris's "The Influence of
Building Materials upon Architecture." Printed on handmade paper
by the publisher. Binding Good (moderate soiling, & edges of
covers chipped); contents Very Good (stains to top of pp.35-40).
Colbeck 6 (p.987). (Inv. #678) C$250 Home Page |