The 1924 Ashendene edition of The Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius was printed in Emery Walker’s Subiaco type in an edition of 124, of which just 16 copies were printed on vellum. Its decoration includes coloured and gilt initials by Graily Hewitt.
This copy on vellum was bound in full brickred morocco gilt at the WH Smith bindery, perhaps by Douglas Cockerell.
It took an unexpected £17,000 at Bamfords in Derby in November 2017 – more than doubling the previous auction best, set at Sotheby’s New York back in 1989.