Six Nonesuch Press titles, including Mariette Lydis (illustr...

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Six Nonesuch Press titles, including Mariette Lydis (illustrated); George Hamilton (edited): 'The Greek Portrait', London, Nonesuch Press, 1934, limited edition (314/425), numbered, designed by Francis Meynell, 3 collotype plates by Mariette Lydis, each with acetate guards as called for, original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, slipcase; M.R.H. Farrar (illustrated); John Milton & Henry Lawes: 'The Mask of Comus', L, Nonesuch, 1937, limited edition (268/950), numbered, 5 colour plates (including frontis) and colour title vignette printed from the linoleum cuts of the artist M.R.H.Farrar by the Curwen press as called for, ex library (small number unobtrusive marks at front, else leaves clean/vgc, no other lib markings), folio, orig. blindstamped paper covered boards gilt (slightly worn); James Thomson: 'The Seasons', L, Nonesuch, 1927, limited edition (198/1500), numbered, 5 copper engraved plates & title page vignette as called for, watercoloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, 4to, orig. marbled cloth, leather gilt title label to spine; plus 'The Mistress With Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667', Nonesuch, 1926, (1037/1050), orig. polished buckram, 'Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne', Nonesuch, 1923, (493/645), orig. patterned paper covered boards, dust wrapper, plus 1 other (6)

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Auction Date: 28th Feb 2023 at 10am

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