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[FINE PRESS BOOKS]. 3 TITLES. ++ The Poems Of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 3 Vols. London: Vale Press, 1901-02. 8vo. Cream cloth, lightly soiled, spines faded, faint foxing to fore-edge of text block. Very good overall. Edition of 310. Ransom 34. ++ James Thomson. The Seasons. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. 4to. Marbled boards, very good condition. #397 of 1,500. Five illustrations by Jacquier engraved on copper by C. Sigrist. ++ Thomas Gray. Poems. London: Privately printed for Eton College by C.T. Jacobi in the Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society, 1920. 4to. 87 pages. Full vellum, warped and soiled, split to lower front joint, brief ink not on endpaper and poem by Shakespeare hand-written on front blank.

Estimate $250-350

PROVENANCE: Estate of Ambassador and Mrs. William H.G. FitzGerald, Washington, DC, by descent from Ignaz Petschek and Nikodem Caro, Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Sold for $225


       
 

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