Illuminated Manuscripts : Their Origin, History and Characteristics. A Sketch, By Edward Quaile. With twenty-six examples from books of hours in his possession .
by QUAILE, Edward (1821-1900 ) .:
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Liverpool : H. Young & Sons, South Castle Street, 1897 .. Signed first edition. 8vo. 8.75" x 7.0" x 1.0". pp.xi./[1p.]/pp.149/ [1p.] + xxvi plates (including colour frontispiece) . A very good original maroon cloth binding. Gilt title to front board and spine. Rubbing to edges and corners. Spined sunned. Top page edge gilt, other page edges deckled (rough-cut). Old library label to verso of the front board: "Bournemouth Natural Science Society." Neat inscription to front endpaper: "To Jos. Le Paira. With all good wishes of the writer a friend of more than half a century, Edw. Quaile. Feb 1898". Foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean text a nd illustrations throughout. VG. ** Edward Quaile (7th May 1821 - 29th August 1900 ) . The Quaile family moved from Dumfries, Scotland to Liverpool around the 1830s, where Edward was apprenticed to a cotton broker. By 1870, he was President of the Cotton Broker�s Association, and living in Birkenhead. He built up an enviable collection of illuminated manuscripts and other antiquities. Amongst Quaile�s collection of antiquities was one artifact of singular significance to Burns Night: the last razor that Robert Burns, the bard himself, ever shaved with." - See Flaybrick Memorial Gardens Project .
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- Illuminated Manuscripts : Their Origin, History and Characteristics. A Sketch, By Edward Quaile. With twenty-six examples from books of hours in his possession .
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- QUAILE, Edward (1821-1900 ) .:
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- Liverpool : H. Young & Sons, South Castle Street, 1897 .
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