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Lot 109A
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$378
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Lot Description
[HOOD, Derek, binder]. WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). The Ballad of Reading Gaol. New York: The Heritage Press, 1937.
8vo. Illustrations by Zhenya Gay. 20th-century gray crushed levant, upper cover with maroon, red, white and black levant onlays depicting a hand in a shackle with grey and white morocco and calf vertical rule onlays, spine gilt-lettered, edges gilt, red suede doublures, black calf endleaves, BOUND BY DEREK HOOD with his blind monogrammed stamp "DH" on lower turn-in; board slipcase.
Trade edition IN A FINE 20th-CENTURY BINDING. Inspired by bindings by Edgar Mansfield and the Doves Press in the St. Andrews University Library, Derek Hood studied printing, publishing and bookbinding at Napier University in Edinburgh. He was elected a fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2006.
Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio



