James Cummins Bookseller

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894-95.

Price: $10,000.00

About the item

One of 250 copies. Printed in red and black, ornamental woodcut title, borders, and initials. 3 vols. 8vo. The Magnificent Kelmscott Press Shelley. Original full limp vellum, spines stamped in gold, issued without silk ties. Light foxing to edges, long list of signatures inked to first two blanks of volume one, otherwise a fine copy. Housed in custom cloth chemises and blue morocco backed slipcases. Peterson A29; Ransom 29, 29a, 29b. Provenance: From the estate of Arthur Lehmann.

Item #314918

A very nice copy of the magnificent Kelmscott edition of the poems of Shelley.

With interesting New York provenance, likely from the 1920s. With signatures on the two preliminary blank leavesof a number of New York businessmen and philanthropists, many with connections to Temple Emanu-El, including:
Sam Sherrington
Dudley D. Sicher
Samuel J. Bloomingdale [1873-1968; son of Lyman]
Felix M. Warburg
Herbert J. Martin
Jonah Goldstein
J. Edwin Goldman
Leo Sulzberger
Ralph Samuel
Henry F. Samstag
Louis J. Rosenbach
William Goldman
L.A. Ansbacher

H.A. Guinzburg [d. 1928]
Fred M. Stein
S.M. Goldberg
Manny Strauss
Albert J. Lehmann
Jos. Gutman
Solomon Lowenstein [1877-1942]
Z.D. Bernstein
Bernard Rosenwald
Edwin S. Lorsch
Herman Lissner
Cyrus L. Sulzberger [1858-1932]
Maunie Goodman
J.W. Frankel
Joseph Wellen
Herman Sanders.