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[ASHENDENE PRESS]. Un Mazzetto Scelto di Certi Fioretti del Glorioso Poverello di Cristo San Francesco di Assisi Insieme col Cantico al Sole del Medesimo. (Chelsea, 1904). Quarto. (iv), 40 pp.

One of 150 copies on handmade paper. Featuring ten marvelous woodcut illustrations by W.H. Hooper, who did the woodcuts for the Kelmscott Chaucer, after drawings by Charles M. Gere. This is the first Ashendene title to include original woodcuts, and according to Franklin, "marks another step towards [the] great folios with which the Press will always be identified." The text is in two colors, with red initials designed by Graily Hewitt. Slight spotting to spine and top edge, else fine in blue paper over boards with linen spine, title label on spine. (Hornby 19; Franklin 78-79). (16811)
$1,750.

[GOGMAGOG PRESS]. Cox, Morris. The Four Seasons. An Impression of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter: a Landscape Panorama. London, (1965-66). Four small octavo volumes. (26) pp. apiece.

One of 100 copies of the most important publication of the press, printed on Hosho paper, each volume signed by Morris Cox, the artist-printer. All volumes contain a colorful panorama of nature printed from molded blocks, giving an embossed effect. Slight spine slant on Winter; light, uniform toning, else fine in monotype-printed pictorial boards. (Chambers 14-17). (17215)
$3,250.

[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer.Berksire, 1927. Quarto. xi, 312 pp.

One of 225 copies printed on Kelmscott paper in black, red, and blue. This handsome volume is Eric Gill's tour-de-force, his wood engravings appearing in the outer margin of every page of text. The decorations show leafy vines that frame and interlace the characters, who seem to be taking part in and commenting on the stories themselves. A fine copy in morocco-backed patterned paper boards, spine in six compartments and gilt stamped with the title. Housed in the original slipcase, which is lightly rubbed. Troilus and Criseyde is one of the three most important books of the Golden Cockerel Press, and it precedes the other two, The Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels. In discussing these three books, Colin Franklin writes that "Eric Gill's work goes back into the history of printed books and manuscripts, joining two arts with unique success." Of this volume, he goes on to say that the illustrations are "affectionate and cheeky, erotic, enjoyable and relevant, decorative and explanatory, a balance of taste and eye. Author, artist and printer have shared one concept and expressed it." T.e.g. (Franklin, pp.142-144; Chanticleer 50; Gill 279). (18865)
$9,500.

[GRABHORN PRESS]. POWELL, H.M.T. The Santa Fe Trail to California 1849-1852. The Journal and Drawings of H.M.T. Powell. San Francisco, Book Club of California, (1931). Quarto. (x), 272 pp.

From a total edition of 300 copies, this is one of 15 special copies that, according to the publisher, "were planned to be colored by hand, but it was found that the drawings were not improved and only a few were completed." Illustrated with folding frontispiece, two folding maps, and three additional folding illustrations. An extremely fine copy in the deluxe binding of full black calf, with a group of prospectuses laid in. A couple of faint scratches, else a very fine copy of this extremely rare book, which is one of the three major publications of the Grabhorn Press. (Grabhorn Bibliography 158). (19400)
$15,000.