Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Lugd. Batav. et Roterodami [Leyden and Rotterdam]: Ex Officina Hackiana [Johannes Hackius], 1665. 195 x 118 mm. (7 5/8 x 4 3/4"). Two volumes. Edited by Cornelis Schrevelius and Johann Friedrich Gronovius. Pleasing late 18th century reddish brown morocco, gilt (unsigned, but plausibly attributed to Charles Lewis in a pencilled note on front flyleaf), covers with triple fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with central floral sprig surrounded by small tools, rose sprigs at corners, gilt lettering, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Each volume with extra engraved title page with allegorical illustration. Front pastedowns with bookplate of Paul and Lucia Waterhouse. Dibdin II, 368. ◆Spines and head of two boards sunned to a soft tan, back cover of first volume with inconsequential scratch, occasional minor foxing, but a really excellent copy--clean and especially fresh--with few signs of use inside or out. In handsome morocco attributable to a noted binder, this is… Read More