Lot 627

DAVIES, John (1569-1626). Orchestra, London, The Stanton Press, 1922, 4to, illustrations by Elinor Lambert, original boards, ONE OF 175 COPIES. With 2 other limited edition books in 3 vols. Please see the full description below. (4)

Estimate: £100 - £150
Hammer price: £130
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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)

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