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Lot 265
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
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Lot Description
[ALLEN PRESS]. CAXTON, William, translator. The Noble Knight Paris & the Fair Vienne. Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1956.
4to. Title-page printed in orange, title and text with hand-colored marginal vignettes and decorations. (Slight toning to title recto and facing leaf, otherwise fine.) Original vellum-backed pictorial boards, uncut (tiny stain at top of spine); original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 130 unnumbered copies, based on Caxton's 1485 English translation, known in only one copy (at the British Library). Original prospectus and order blank laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation