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67. DOVES PRESS. COBDEN-SANDERSON, Thomas James. Credo. [Doves Press]. 1906.
£2,995
Mounted broadside folio leaf, 472 x 330 mm, printed on Kelmscott Apple paper. A fine copy.
One of only a handful of copies printed in 1906 as a broadside for framing. The next year Cobden-Sanderson printed a few copies as a small octavo booklet
to be
distributed to his friends, finally issuing an edition of 250 copies on paper and 18 on vellum in 1908.
This is therefore the first, very rare, appearance of Cobden- Sanderson’s statement of his philosophical beliefs, an embodiment of his ideals for living “the great Book, the Book of Life”. “Cobden- Sanderson was eager to print some of the works that had
shaped his thinking over the years, about man’s spiritual development, and how a more equal world might be achieved: where the rich would become a little less rich and the poor a little less poor. He tried to show by example in the Doves Press and Bindery the importance of ideals, and how the position of the working man might be raised” (Tidcombe). This broadside is the physical expression of Cobden-Sanderson’s creed, printed as a broadside, to be framed and displayed as a public affirmation of his beliefs.
The quintessential piece of Doves Press ephemera.
Tidcombe lists copies at: University of Texas Austin (she mentions 5 copies, although their on-line catalogue only lists 2), 1 in a private collection in England, and 1 (signed) copy at Washington University Libraries in St Louis.
68. DOVES PRESS. COBDEN-SANDERSON, Thomas James. Credo. Printed at The Doves Press. 1908.
£750
8vo., in full red crushed morocco lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, signed “The Doves Bindery” on lower turn-in. A little rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy.
One of 250 copies.
69. DOVES PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William Shake-speares Sonnets Tercentenary Edition. The Doves Press. [1909]
£998
Small 4to. Original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt; text printed in red and black; 3 capitals designed by Edward Johnston and engraved by Noel Rooke and Eric Gill; covers springing, neat inscription on free-endpaper, otherwise a very good copy.
One of 250 copies on paper. There were also 15 copies on vellum.
70. DOVES PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William. Venus and Adonis. Hammersmith: Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson at The Doves Press. 1912.
£650
Small 4to. Original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt; printed in red and black; a fine copy.
One of 200 copies on paper. Printed from the text of the first edition.
71. DOVES PRESS. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Poems, Selected and arranged by T. J Cobden Sanderson. Doves Press. 1914. £750
8vo., original limp vellum lettered in gilt on spine. Text printed in red and black. A near fine copy.
Limited to 200 copies on paper. There were also 15 copies printed on vellum.
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