Forum Auctions: Online: Tales and Morals: The Fables Collection of the late Eric Sweet, 1026, London

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Auction Date
May 15, 2025 - May 15, 2025
Page Size: 198 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 Japanese.- Florian (Jean-Pierre Claris de)

Fables Choisies...illustrees par des Artistes Japonais

Paris [1895] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 756.00
127 Bookbinding.- Fletcher (William Younger)

English [& Foreign] Bookbindings in the British Museum

1895-96 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,071.00
128 Bookbinding.- Hobson (G.D.)

English Binding before 1500

Cambridge 1929 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 428.40
129 Bookbinding.- McLean (Ruari)

Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather

1974 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 100.80
130 Bookbinding.- Hobson (Anthony)

Apollo and Pegasus: An Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library

Amsterdam 1975 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 352.80
131 Bookbinding.- Tidcombe (Marianne)

The Bookbindings of T.J.Cobden-Sanderson

1984 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 453.60
132 Morris (William).- Homer.

The Odyssey...Done into English Verse by William Morris

1901 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 428.40
133 [Colonna (Francesco)]

Poliphili Hypnerotomachia...

1904 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 693.00
134 Wilde (Oscar)

Salome. A Tragedy in One Act

1906 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 819.00
135 Aesop.

The Fables

1909 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 428.40
136 Aesop.

Aesop's Fables

1912 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,512.00
137 Reynard the Fox.- Kleukens (Christian)

Reinke Voss...

Darmstadt 1913 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
138 Mansfield (Edgar, binder).- Stevenson (Robert Louis)

Fables

1914 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,394.00
139 Aesop.

Esopus. Uebersetzt von Heinrich Steinhowel

Potsdam 1921 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 189.00
140 Cooper (Frederic Taber)

An Argosy of Fables

New York 1921 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 756.00
141

Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The) called by many the Canticle of Canticles

Waltham St.Lawrence 1925 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 882.00
142 Cranach Press.- Vergilius Maro (Publius)

Les Eclogues...

1927 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 2,268.00
143 Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri.

La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision...

1928 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 554.40
144 Curwen Press.- Simon (Oliver, editor)

A Specimen Book of Types & Ornaments in use at the Curwen Press

1931 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,512.00
145 Aesop.

The Begynning of the Book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope Which Were Translated out of Frenssh in the Englysshe by William Caxton

San Francisco 1929 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 579.60
146 La Fontaine (Jean de)

Fables

[?1929] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 94.50
147 Grabhorn Press.- Aesop.

The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope

San Francicso 1930 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 554.40
148 La Fontaine (Jean de)

Fables Choisies

Paris 1930-33 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 302.40
149 Cresset Press.- Spenser (Edmund)

The Shepheardes Calender

1930 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 94.50
150 Gregynog Press.- Aesop.

The Fables of Esope

Newport 1931 [1932] GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,276.00
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