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BACON, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall. Cresset Press, London, 1928.
Price: US$434.99 + shipping
Description: Large quarto; vellum, uncut and limited to 250 copies. Number 7 of an edition of 250: with the bookplate of Vyvyan Edwards. A beautiful copy of Bacon's Essayes, printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper, with titles and initials designed by Joscelyne Gaskin. .
Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
Price: US$740.31 + shipping
Description: folio. pp. 4 p.l., 198, [1 leaf]. printed in black & red on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. titles & initial letters designed by Joscelyne Gaskin. printer's device in red on justification leaf. original vellum, t.e.g., others uncut (mild offsetting from former owner's label to upper portion of flyleaf & half-title). in very worn slipcase. Limited to 250 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott Hand-Made Paper [+ 8 on vellum].
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: Large folio (39 x 27cm). Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press & published at 10 guineas. The Cresset Press commissioned Newdigate to design this book, the titles and initials in red designed by Joselyn Gaskin & printed in Cloister type. No. 115/250 copies printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. pp. [viii],198,[2]. An excellent copy bound in the publisher's full vellum, gilt, teg, with some light toning, but without any of the major discolouration usually seen with this book. Internally fine. The two upper outer board corners lighty bumped. VG. [Ransom 237; Franklin & Turner 350; Ricketts 159; Rogerson 95; Brown 36]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom