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Copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer sold earlier this week for $140,000
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More of a bookbinding history thing than anything, but the binding is gorgeous! I believe this is the most a copy of this book has sold for.
I believe there were a few versions of bindings for this originally: a small number printed on vellum and bound in white hogs hide with blind tooling, a limp vellum binding (how most of the Kelmscott Press books were sold), and I know there is at least one covered and finished by Cobden-Sanderson.
u/GreenManBookArts — 6 days ago