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Lot 44
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lots 1-273
Nov 12, 2020
4:00AM CT
Lots 274-476
Nov 13, 2020
4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$813
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Lot Description
[CRANBROOK PRESS]. CAXTON, William (1422?-1491). The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers: A Facsimile. Detroit: Cranbrook Press, 1901.
4to. Printed in black-letter throughout. Title and final text leaves printed within elaborate double-page woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Original half vellum, morocco lettering-piece gilt, unopened (some minor chipping and rubbing to lettering-piece, tear with loss to spine).
LIMITED EDITION, number 142 of 244 copies, printed in the manner of Caxton's 1477 edition, one of the earliest books printed in England.
Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet