Lot 2138 , Rossetti, Christian - Poems with illustrations by Florence Harrison. Introduction by Alice Meynell. (Limited Edition of 525 numbered copies). pictorial title, 36 coloured and mounted plates (with captioned guards)

° Rossetti, Christian - Poems with illustrations by Florence Harrison. Introduction by Alice Meynell. (Limited Edition of 525 numbered copies). pictorial title, 36 coloured and mounted plates (with captioned guards), full page and other text illus.; original gilt pictorial cloth, gilt top, pictorial e/ps., 4to. (1910); [Byrne, M.St Clare], editor - The Elizabethan Zoo: a book of beasts both fabulous and authentic Limited Edition (of 525 numbered copies) illus., original cloth backed pattern boards, mostly unopened, sm.4to 1926; Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland ... Translated from the Latin with notes ... by Henry T. Riley. old half morocco and cloth, 1854; together with miscellaneous books, some antiquarian (24)
£60-80

Condition:
Rosetti - inner hinges cracked, front free e/p. and following leaf loose, covers v.sl. marked, marked and lesser staining pp.168-82 (extends to text pp.169-71); Byrne - spine faded, e/ps. badly soiled, copy no. 254; Ingulph - reasonably good; Others incl. Rubaiyatt (ed. Heron Allen). num. fp. facsims., col. frontis. and title, spine damaged (2 pieces missing); Watts's Psalms of David imitated in the language of the NT. (port. frontis., 1805), bound with author's Hymns and Spiritual Songs (contemp. black morocco, ge. 1805), some intermittent spotting, lower cover bd. edge worn in one place; The Englishwoman in Russia (by a Lady, 1855), blind and gilt decorated cloth, some stains inside and out).

Sold for £500