Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £190 |
NONESUCH PRESS - William WYCHERLEY (1641-1716). The Complete Works ... Edited by Montague Summers. [London:] The Nonesuch Press, 1924. 4 volumes, 4to (260 x 195mm). Titles within woodcut typographical borders. Original vellum-backed marbled decorated paper boards gilt, uncut (minor repairs to spine of vol. one, with some loss of gilt). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). ONE OF 975 SETS, THIS NUMBER 36 OF 75 COPIES ON "ENGLISH HAND-MADE PAPER". With 3 other works printed by the Nonesuch Press in 8 vols. comprising William Congreve's The Complete Works (London, 1923, 4 vols., 4to, original buckram-backed paper boards, NUMBER 626 OF 900 SETS), Thomas Otway's The Complete Works (London, 1926, 3 vols., 4to, original buckram-backed paper boards, NUMBER 403 OF 1,250 SETS) and John WILMOT, Earl of Rochester's Collected Works (London, 1926, 4to, original buckram-backed paper boards, NUMBER 524 OF 975 COPIES), all with the old armorial bookplates of Anthony Eden. (12)