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1- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, 2 Vols. G Braziller, New York, and Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1968, Limited edition 287/1200. Facsimile of the Phillipps manuscript of 1480, Full leather & slipcase. VG; 2- Jacobus de Cessolis: The Game of Chess. Facsimile from the Copy at Trinity College, Cambridge,. Scolar Press, 1976, Limited edn. number 168 of 500 copies. 23 large woodcut illustrations. Original rough hessian and morocco label VG; 3- The Dictes and Sayings of The Philosophers, a facsimile of the first book printed in England by William Caxton in 1477, Elliot Stock, 1877, Recent leather-backed boards, VG; 4- Rae, J: The Statutes of Henry Vii. In Exact Facsimile, from the very rare original, printed by Caxton in 1489, John Camden Hotten, 1869, 1st. Edn. Thus. Cont. leather-backed boards; rubbed (5)
Provenance: Anne F Sutton's collection, most with her bookplate.
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