Alcuin Books, Ltd.

Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, February 16th, 1897 [catalog of books]

London: Kelmscott Press, 1897. Item #031485

7 unnumbered pages (1 sheet, folded). 21 cm. Cover title / Printer's device and typeface examples on title page/printed in red and black/Section titles, S.C. Cockerell, Secretary. [1] Books now ready; nearly ready [2] In the Press, with catalog listing; [3-4] In preparation [The Sundering Flood] and Books already printed of which a few copies still remain; [5] in red, the following books are out of print: [26 titles] [6] Now Ready in red: The Earthly Paradise, The Well at the World's End; Nearly ready in red, Sire Degravaunt; [7] Hand and soul, Herrick's Poems, Chaucer's Works; Savonarola; Coleridge's Poems, Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis; The Flower of the Leaf, Spenser's Shepheard's Calendar. Large red notice: Kelmscott Books on Vellum. A set of all the books that have been printed on vellum at the Kelmscott Press, with the exception of Chaucer's Works 46 volumes, price Five Hundred Pounds. An uncommon piece of Kelmscott ephemera with a careful list of items in preparation, those out-of-print and the cost of the remaining vellum editions. Toning to edges, a split down the spine of the first page and a crease down the center. There appears to be a variant (see OCLC 19864370).

Price: $450.00