The Pageants of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick. Reproduced in facsimile from the Cottonian MS. Julius E. IV. in the British Museum. With an Introduction by William, Earl of Carysfort
by Rous, J. ; Carysfort, Lord Roxburghe Club
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Bookplate of Ditchley Books on front pastedown endpaper, compliments slip of the Earl of Carysfort tipped-in, covers somewhat ru
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About This Item
Privately printed, Oxford, for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, first edition, 1908. Folio, Roxburghe maroon morocco spine and boards, 29 cm, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed title printed in red and black,. [4], xvi pp, 55 monochrome photographic plates on Japanese vellum with facing transcriptions. Includes an introduction by William, earl of Carysfort and "A series of drawings representing scenes or 'pagents' in the life of the earl ... As to the origin of the manuscript ... there has been a persistent tradition that its author was John Rous ... there is very little to connect it with Rous, and ... while we may hesitate to accept him as the author even of the text, we have no hesitation whatever in pronouncing the drawings not to be his handiwork at all."- Introduction. Barker comments: "The Pageants of Richard Beauchamp, presented to the Club by the Earl of Carysfort in 1908, represents another turning point in the history of the Club. It was printed, both the text and the admirable sanguigno collotypes, by the Oxford University Press, and it inaugurated associations with both the Oxford and Cambridge university presses that were to continue throughout the century. Bookplate of Ditchley Books on front pastedown endpaper, compliments slip of the Earl of Carysfort tipped-in, covers somewhat rubbed and scuffed, otherwise a near Very Good copy,.
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- Title
- The Pageants of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick. Reproduced in facsimile from the Cottonian MS. Julius E. IV. in the British Museum. With an Introduction by William, Earl of Carysfort
- Author
- Rous, J. ; Carysfort, Lord Roxburghe Club
- Format/Binding
- Folio, Roxburghe maroon morocco spine and boards, 29 cm, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed title printed in red and black,
- Book Condition
- Used - Bookplate of Ditchley Books on front pastedown endpaper, compliments slip of the Earl of Carysfort tipped-in, covers somewhat ru
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately printed, Oxford, for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, first edition, 1908
- Date Published
- 1908
- Pages
- [4], xvi pp, 55 monochrome photographic plates on Japanese vellum with facing transcriptions
- Keywords
- Roxburghe Club Beauchamp, Richard de, -- Earl of Warwick, -- 1382-1439. England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485 -- Sources. Manuscripts, English -- Facsimiles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Roxburghe Club;
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