Lot 55
[SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE BINDING]. CHESTERTON, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936). Five Types: A Book of Essays. London, 1910. 
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020 10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$400 - $500

Sold for $1,500

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE BINDING]. CHESTERTON, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936). Five Types: A Book of Essays. London, 1910. 

Square 8vo. Engraved title-page, 6 small engravings laid down as head- and tailpieces. Blue morocco elaborately gilt with various tooled borders, corners of front cover with gilt butterflies surrounded by flowers of red morocco onlay gilt, gilt centerpiece title within a wreath, spine gilt in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the rest gilt with red morocco onlay flowers, turn-ins gilt, red silk doublures and endpapers, edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (upper cover neatly detaching).

LIMITED EDITION, number 3 of 30 copies on vellum SIGNED BY GEORGE SUTCLIFFE.

Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery
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