Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £700 |
HOGARTH PRESS - John MAYNARD KEYNES (1883-1946). The End of Laissez-Faire. London: "Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press," 1926. 8vo (185 x 120mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on title. Original cloth-backed paper boards, printed spine label (boards lightly stained, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. Woolmer Hogarth Press 97. With 3 other books from the same press, namely E. M. Forster's Pharos and Pharillon (Richmond [London], The Hogarth Press, 1923, 8vo, original blue cloth-backed decorated paper boards, spine label, FIRST EDITION, Woolmer 29), Clive Bell's The Legend of Monte Della Sibilla (Richmond, The Hogarth Press, 1923, 4to, illustrated by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, original pictorial paper boards by Vanessa Bell (without the dust-jacket), FIRST EDITION, Woolmer 27) and [Dorothy Bussy's] Olivia by Olivia (London [Tavistock Square], The Hogarth Press, November 1949, 8vo, original mauve cloth gilt, fifth impression, with a printed dedication "To the Beloved Memory of V. W."). Provenance: Anthony Eden (modern armorial bookplates loosely-inserted in each book). (4)