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FAMOUS COLLECTION SOLD Special Correspondent Rec. 11.30 p.m. LONDON, June 11. The famous library assembled over a period of years by the well-known British collector, Mr C. W. Dyson Perrins, of Malvern, which has been sold at Sotheby’s, realised over £147,000, which was £IOO,OOO profit over Mr Perrin’s original outlay. The last sale from this notable collection was made this week, when Sotheby’s received £3400 from an American collector for the only perfect copy in existence of Wynkyn de Worde’s edition of “The Three Kings of Cologne.” De Worde was the apprentice and successor of Caxton, and came to England from Alsace at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The story of “The Three Kings of Cologne ” is set in beautiful Gothic type with woodcuts of the Adoration of the Magi and of the Crucifixion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26485, 12 June 1947, Page 5
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