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DOVES PRESS --Thomas James COBDEN SANDERSON (1840-1922). Catalogue raisonné of books printed & published at the Doves Press 1900-1916. Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1916. 4 o in 8s (230 x 160 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM in red and black, one of ten copies. Etched portrait of Cobden-Sanderson by A. Legros, printed on paper, mounted on vellum and inserted as frontispiece (as issued). BINDING DESIGNED BY COBDEN-SANDERSON AND EXECUTED AT THE DOVES BINDERY: gold-tooled orange-brown niger morocco, all-over design on covers of circled rosettes and large solid dots surrounded by ringlets and connected by straight and curved fillets, spine tooled and lettered, double fillet on turn-ins, signed and dated 1918 on back turn-in, gilt edges, (very slight rubbing at joint-ends). Cloth folding case by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Provenance : Ernst Kyriss, German binding historian and collector (discreet collector's stamp) -- John A. Saks (bookplate, Christie's New York, 22 May 1981, lot 408) -- H. O'More (bookplate, Sotheby's New York, 10 November 1989, lot 279). THE LAST BOOK FROM THE DOVES PRESS. Limited edition of 160 copies, of which this is ONE OF TEN COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM. Two other vellum copies were bound to the same pattern by Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Bindery, both in dark-blue morocco (private collection, France, and the retree copy at Wormsley). In addition to the Doves Press catalogue, the book contains by way of introduction, "Salve aeternum aeternumque vale", a farewell to the Press, its craftsmen and friends, as well as miscellaneous lectures, letters, advertisements and notes by Cobden-Sanderson. Loosely inserted in this copy are a Doves Press prospectus annotated by Paul Hirsch and an annotated proofsheet from the Doves Press of Emerson's Essays of 1906. BBB Harvard 51.