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Huntington Library, San Marino [Calif.], xxx edition, 1975. Huntington Library.Manuscripts. Illustrated printed wrappers, 8vo, 24 cm,. 87 pp, facs. From the introduction: " The purpose of this booklet is to provide a general survey of the manuscripts and manuscript collections of the Huntington Library. These have been brought together over a period of fifty years and are con- stantly being added to, but the field is being deepened rather than broadened, for it is confined to the literature and history of the American and British peoples, with a limited amount of illustrative material from other sources. The booklet is intended for visitors and other people with a general interest in books and libraries. Some of the manuscripts on permanent exhibition will be noticed, and others singled out for description have been chosen either because they are particularly representative or because they offer some special features of general interest. Wrappers slightly darkened, otherwise Near Very Good, a…
Read More A Monograph on the Italian Choir Book by Schulz, H.C - 1941
by Schulz, H.C
A Monograph on the Italian Choir Book
by Schulz, H.C
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- Signed
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. Angelo, Valenti. Folio. (10)ff. From an edition of 75 copies printed for David Magee at the Grabhorn Press, this is copy number nineteen of 27 deluxe copies signed by Magee, with a stunning vellum leaf from a sixteenth-century Italian Gradual bound in. The leaf, which has been trimmed, shows an intricate initial nearly six inches high, decorated in blue, pink, green, and gilt illumination with a rose design. The text of the book contains fourteen large initials, including a four-inch opening letter, all hand-written and illuminated by Valenti Angelo. Generally externally rubbed about two-tone cloth covers over boards, else very good. (BCC 43; Chalmers 90, Magee 363).
- Bookseller Bromer Booksellers (US)
- Illustrator Angelo, Valenti
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher Grabhorn Press
- Place of Publication San Francisco
- Date Published 1941