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London: Macmillan and Co, 1902-05. The "Cambridge Edition.. 235 x 159 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). Nine volumes. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Very appealing olive brown half morocco over green linen by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), raised bands, spines gilt in double-ruled compartments with dotted inner frame and floral cornerpieces as well as large central ornament formed by two crossed swords, a crown, and a garland, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges rough trimmed (volume I with front joint very expertly renewed). Jaggard, p. 699 (1897 ed.). ◆Spines uniformly sunned to a very pleasing honey brown, first volume with shallow chipping at top of spine and with one band a little abraded, otherwise only trivial defects, the bindings in all other ways showing only very minor signs of use, and the text quite clean and fresh.First published in 1863-66, and with revised editions issued in 1867 and 1891, the acclaimed Cambridge edition of Shakespeare is generally…
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ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, FROM A VERY DECORATIVE BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN
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203 x 143 mm. (8 x 5 5/8").
Single column, 15 lines of text in an attractive gothic book hand.
Leaves with multiple finely illuminated one-line initials (and a single two-line initial) in blue or magenta with white tracery and containing one or more twining flowers in blue, orange, and white, the whole on a burnished gold ground, usually as many line fillers (of the same design) as initials, the text enclosed on three sides by a bar border of blue and gold, with acanthus leaf extensions at the bottom, and EACH SIDE OF EACH LEAF WITH A VERY INTRICATE FULL BORDER OF RINCEAU, consisting of many floral buds, gold bezants, and ivy leaves.
Borders trimmed a little close at one edge (no loss of decoration), one leaf with thin strip of mounting cloth along inner margin, a hint of yellowing at edges, but generally in excellent condition, THE ILLUMINATION ESPECIALLY AND CONSISTENTLY BRIGHT AND FRESH.
These are Parisian Book of Hours leaves from what was obviously a splendid manuscript. The substantial size of the leaves, the glistening gold, and the intricacy of the decoration of the border and the illuminated letters combine here to make a very pleasing impression.
Single column, 15 lines of text in an attractive gothic book hand.
Leaves with multiple finely illuminated one-line initials (and a single two-line initial) in blue or magenta with white tracery and containing one or more twining flowers in blue, orange, and white, the whole on a burnished gold ground, usually as many line fillers (of the same design) as initials, the text enclosed on three sides by a bar border of blue and gold, with acanthus leaf extensions at the bottom, and EACH SIDE OF EACH LEAF WITH A VERY INTRICATE FULL BORDER OF RINCEAU, consisting of many floral buds, gold bezants, and ivy leaves.
Borders trimmed a little close at one edge (no loss of decoration), one leaf with thin strip of mounting cloth along inner margin, a hint of yellowing at edges, but generally in excellent condition, THE ILLUMINATION ESPECIALLY AND CONSISTENTLY BRIGHT AND FRESH.
These are Parisian Book of Hours leaves from what was obviously a splendid manuscript. The substantial size of the leaves, the glistening gold, and the intricacy of the decoration of the border and the illuminated letters combine here to make a very pleasing impression.
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- Date Published ca. 1420
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THE WORKS
by (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
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- The "Cambridge Edition.
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THE WORKS
by (SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS). HOMER
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- No. 302 OF 450 COPIES on paper (and 10 on vellum)
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Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-31. No. 302 OF 450 COPIES on paper (and 10 on vellum). 292 x 203 mm. (11 1/2 x 8"). Five volumes. Translated by George Chapman. Publisher's original burnt-orange half morocco over cream-colored buckram, edges untrimmed. In a later paper-covered slipcase. With 52 wood engravings by John Farleigh, comprised of two frontispieces, woodcut-framed title pages to volumes I and V, and 48 full-page cuts. With ink ownership inscription of Daisy Patterson Hall on limitations pages. Ransom, p. 17; Franklin, p. 236; Horne, p. 185. ◆Overall fading and significant chafing to spines, minor dressing residue to leather, faint dampstain covering about a third of the back cover of volume V (a few tiny stray stains on the spine of the same volume), but the bindings showing little wear, and the sides of the other volumes (often found foxed) virtually spotless and very pleasing. Internally a beautiful copy, as fresh and clean as one could hope for. This is the major modern fine…
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER [bound with] HYMNS. ANCIENT AND MODERN
by CHURCH OF ENGLAND
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Cambridge: Printed by C. J. Clay & Sons; London: William Clowes and Sons, ca. 1890. 146 x 87 mm. (5 3/4 x 3 1/2"). [340] leaves; 588 pp. DELIGHTFUL ONLAID, MOLDED, AND PAINTED VELLUM BINDING BY THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF ART NEEDLEWORK, upper cover with raised bronze frame enclosing two angels in blue robes, one with molded bronze wings and nimbus, the other with gilt wings and halo, the onlaid lettering "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" in a semi-circle above them; lower cover with a simpler representation of a seraph in blue and gold; smooth spine divided into panels by blue and gold bands with emanating pairs of wings, gilt titling, all edges gilt. ◆Upper cover with paint a bit rubbed, gilt a little dulled, and with several tiny chips to the raised border and angel wings, a hint of soiling to vellum; not as splendid as it once was, but still A DELIGHTFUL EXAMPLE retaining most of its original appeal, the binding entirely solid and with nothing approaching a fatal problem, and the text in fine state. This…
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PEG WOFFINGTON
by (BINDINGS - SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE). READE, CHARLES
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New York: Printed [by the De Vinne Press] for the Grolier Club, 1887. ONE OF 250 COPIES on Holland paper and two on vellum. 180 x 110 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 1/2"). Two volumes.. GRACEFUL BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), upper cover framed by multiple gilt fillets interlaced at corners, center panel with gilt lettering at head and foot, and a six-petalled gilt ornament with inlaid green morocco dot at center, raised bands, gilt-ruled spine compartments and titling, gilt-ruled turn-ins, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Each volume WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT of a main character from the novel by Alfred Brennan, dated 1907. ◆Small stain at head edge of free endpaper and flyleaf in volume I, otherwise AN ESPECIALLY FINE SET with no signs of use inside or out. With an original watercolor by a noted American illustrator and a binding by one of Edwardian England's top workshops, this is surely the ultimate copy of the Grolier Club's limited…
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A NEW SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE. BEING A COMPLETE BODY OF HUSBANDRY AND GARDENING
by (AGRICULTURE - 18TH CENTURY). LAURENCE, JOHN
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London: Printed for Tho. Woodward [by William Bowyer], 1726. FIRST EDITION. One of 1,000 copies (according to Bowyer's ledgers, per ESTC). 360 x 222 mm. (14 x 8 3/4"). 12 p.l., 456 [i.e. 452] pp. (4L2v is numbered 316-320). Contemporary calf, covers with gilt roll frame, oblique floral cornerpieces, rebacked in olive-brown calf, raised bands flanked by scrolling gilt rolls, panels with decorative gilt centerpiece, red morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges (neat repairs to head edge and to corners). With engraved frontispiece, five small engravings in the text, and two engraved plates of plants. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Charles Gresley; pp. 286, 288-290 with contemporary ink annotations to (folded) fore margins. Henrey 945; ESTC T146573. ◆Boards with a number of small abrasions, but the restored binding sound, and perfectly agreeable; isolated faint dust-soiling to head margins, other trivial imperfections, but the text in very fine condition, especially clean, crisp, and…
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THE WORKS
by (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
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- The "Cambridge Edition.
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1902-05. The "Cambridge Edition.. 235 x 159 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). Nine volumes. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Very appealing olive brown half morocco over green linen by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), raised bands, spines gilt in double-ruled compartments with dotted inner frame and floral cornerpieces as well as large central ornament formed by two crossed swords, a crown, and a garland, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges rough trimmed (volume I with front joint very expertly renewed). Jaggard, p. 699 (1897 ed.). ◆Spines uniformly sunned to a very pleasing honey brown, first volume with shallow chipping at top of spine and with one band a little abraded, otherwise only trivial defects, the bindings in all other ways showing only very minor signs of use, and the text quite clean and fresh.First published in 1863-66, and with revised editions issued in 1867 and 1891, the acclaimed Cambridge edition of Shakespeare is generally…
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THE WORKS
by (SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS). HOMER
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- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- No. 302 OF 450 COPIES on paper (and 10 on vellum)
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
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McMinnville, Oregon, United States
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$988.00
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Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-31. No. 302 OF 450 COPIES on paper (and 10 on vellum). 292 x 203 mm. (11 1/2 x 8"). Five volumes. Translated by George Chapman. Publisher's original burnt-orange half morocco over cream-colored buckram, edges untrimmed. In a later paper-covered slipcase. With 52 wood engravings by John Farleigh, comprised of two frontispieces, woodcut-framed title pages to volumes I and V, and 48 full-page cuts. With ink ownership inscription of Daisy Patterson Hall on limitations pages. Ransom, p. 17; Franklin, p. 236; Horne, p. 185. ◆Overall fading and significant chafing to spines, minor dressing residue to leather, faint dampstain covering about a third of the back cover of volume V (a few tiny stray stains on the spine of the same volume), but the bindings showing little wear, and the sides of the other volumes (often found foxed) virtually spotless and very pleasing. Internally a beautiful copy, as fresh and clean as one could hope for. This is the major modern fine…
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER [bound with] HYMNS. ANCIENT AND MODERN
by CHURCH OF ENGLAND
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Cambridge: Printed by C. J. Clay & Sons; London: William Clowes and Sons, ca. 1890. 146 x 87 mm. (5 3/4 x 3 1/2"). [340] leaves; 588 pp. DELIGHTFUL ONLAID, MOLDED, AND PAINTED VELLUM BINDING BY THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF ART NEEDLEWORK, upper cover with raised bronze frame enclosing two angels in blue robes, one with molded bronze wings and nimbus, the other with gilt wings and halo, the onlaid lettering "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" in a semi-circle above them; lower cover with a simpler representation of a seraph in blue and gold; smooth spine divided into panels by blue and gold bands with emanating pairs of wings, gilt titling, all edges gilt. ◆Upper cover with paint a bit rubbed, gilt a little dulled, and with several tiny chips to the raised border and angel wings, a hint of soiling to vellum; not as splendid as it once was, but still A DELIGHTFUL EXAMPLE retaining most of its original appeal, the binding entirely solid and with nothing approaching a fatal problem, and the text in fine state. This…
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PEG WOFFINGTON
by (BINDINGS - SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE). READE, CHARLES
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- Condition
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- ONE OF 250 COPIES on Holland paper and two on vellum
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New York: Printed [by the De Vinne Press] for the Grolier Club, 1887. ONE OF 250 COPIES on Holland paper and two on vellum. 180 x 110 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 1/2"). Two volumes.. GRACEFUL BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), upper cover framed by multiple gilt fillets interlaced at corners, center panel with gilt lettering at head and foot, and a six-petalled gilt ornament with inlaid green morocco dot at center, raised bands, gilt-ruled spine compartments and titling, gilt-ruled turn-ins, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Each volume WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT of a main character from the novel by Alfred Brennan, dated 1907. ◆Small stain at head edge of free endpaper and flyleaf in volume I, otherwise AN ESPECIALLY FINE SET with no signs of use inside or out. With an original watercolor by a noted American illustrator and a binding by one of Edwardian England's top workshops, this is surely the ultimate copy of the Grolier Club's limited…
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A NEW SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE. BEING A COMPLETE BODY OF HUSBANDRY AND GARDENING
by (AGRICULTURE - 18TH CENTURY). LAURENCE, JOHN
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- first
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- FIRST EDITION. One of 1,000 copies (according to Bowyer's ledger
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London: Printed for Tho. Woodward [by William Bowyer], 1726. FIRST EDITION. One of 1,000 copies (according to Bowyer's ledgers, per ESTC). 360 x 222 mm. (14 x 8 3/4"). 12 p.l., 456 [i.e. 452] pp. (4L2v is numbered 316-320). Contemporary calf, covers with gilt roll frame, oblique floral cornerpieces, rebacked in olive-brown calf, raised bands flanked by scrolling gilt rolls, panels with decorative gilt centerpiece, red morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges (neat repairs to head edge and to corners). With engraved frontispiece, five small engravings in the text, and two engraved plates of plants. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Charles Gresley; pp. 286, 288-290 with contemporary ink annotations to (folded) fore margins. Henrey 945; ESTC T146573. ◆Boards with a number of small abrasions, but the restored binding sound, and perfectly agreeable; isolated faint dust-soiling to head margins, other trivial imperfections, but the text in very fine condition, especially clean, crisp, and…
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ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY
by FROM A SMALL PSALTER-HOURS IN LATIN, WITH IMMENSELY CHARMING MARGINALIA
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Rubrics in red, line fillers in pink and blue with gold accents, each leaf with one or more one-line initials in blue with red penwork or gold with blue penwork, each leaf with a two-line initial painted blue or pink and filled with fish, armorial patterns, or other motif, ONE OF THESE INHABITED BY A HUMAN HEAD, most on a gold ground, one side of each leaf with A FULL BORDER composed of pink and blue tendrils accompanied by spikey gold decoration and gold accents, often terminating in ivy leaves, and incorporating EXTRAORDINARILY CHARMING EXAMPLES OF MARGINALIA, INCLUDING ANIMALS, HUMANS, AND HYBRIDS. ◆Vellum sometimes a little soiled, some leaves with staining or smudging affecting parts of the text and decoration (including a few marginalia) as well as more minor instances of rubbing or smudging, but each leaf with at least one excellent example of a delightful figure in the margin that is very well preserved.Though diminutive in size, these leaves contain enormously appealing marginal decoration…
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