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Hammer price: | £130 |
DAVIES, John (1569-1626). Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing. [London:] The Stanton Press, 1922. 4to (260 x 200mm). Title within woodcut border, woodcut illustrations and decorations by Elinor Lambert. Original hessian-backed blue paper boards, uncut. Provenance: ANTHONY EDEN (1897-1977, 1st Earl of Avon, modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). NUMBER 31 OF 175 COPIES SIGNED BY RICHARD STANTON LAMBERT. With 2 other works in 3 vols., namely Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron ... Faithfully Translated by J. M. Rigg (London, 1906, 2 vols., 4to, 12 plates by Louis Chalon, attractively bound in dark plum straight-grained morocco gilt) and Thomas Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ... With an Introduction by Sir Walter Scott and a Benediction by Rudyard Kipling incorporated in a Foreword by E. V. Lucas (London, 1931, 4to, original calf by Bain and Company, ONE OF 500 COPIES), all from the Library of ANTHONY EDEN, 1st Earl of Avon. (4)