THE MIRROR OF THE SINFUL SOUL, A Prose translation from the French
by QUEEN ELIZABETH
- Used
- Signed
- first
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- Seller
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Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
. of a Poem by Queen Margaret of Navarre, made in 1544 by Princess Elizabeth (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth then 11 years of age. Edited by Percy W. Ames. London, Asher, 1897. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. iv, + 45 followed by Elizabeth's 1544 poem reproduced in facsimile (124 pages on hand-made paper). Frontis. portrait of Princess Elizabeth and reproduction of the embroidered cover of the original manuscript. Half-calf, marbled endpapers, with the coat of arms of the Royal Society of Literature stamped in gilt on the front cover. Some heavy foxing to the blanks and spotting to the uncut foredges, a very good copy. Percy Ames was the librarian and Secretary of The Royal Society of Literature and this copy is inscribed by him to Victor Leuliette Esq.
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- Bookseller
- Voewood Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1243
- Title
- THE MIRROR OF THE SINFUL SOUL, A Prose translation from the French
- Author
- QUEEN ELIZABETH
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
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Voewood Rare Books
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Holt, Norfolk
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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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- Facsimile
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...