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USE OF ROME
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USE OF ROME

by A LOVELY LITTLE ITALIAN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN

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Italy [Florence], ca. 1470. 125 x 85 mm. (5 x 3 1/4"). 246 unnumbered leaves, COMPLETE; single column, 11 lines, in an elegant gothic rotunda script. Contents: Calendar (f. 1r); Hours of the Virgin, "secundum consuetudinem Romane curie," with Matins (f. 13r), Lauds (f. 27v), Prime (f. 46r), Terce (f. 52v), Sext (f. 59v), None (f. 65v), Vespers (f. 71v), and Compline (f. 83v); Office of the Dead (f. 113r); Seven Penitential Psalms (f. 189r); Litany (f. 208r); Hours of the Cross (f. 223r); 15 Gradual Psalms (f. 229r). Very pretty 18th century red morocco, elegantly gilt, covers bordered by plain and decorative rules enclosing a panel with large central floral spray, two birds perched on its leaves, this surrounded by tiny gilt circles and two more birds in flight and framed by gracefully twining foliage; smooth spine divided into panels by triple gilt fillets, the panels with floral sprig centerpiece and volute cornerpieces, gilt titling, turn-ins densely gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.… Read More
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NOTABILI ET SENTENTIE DI QUATTRO DOCTORI: GERONIMO, GREGORIO, AGUSTINO ET AMRUGIO
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NOTABILI ET SENTENTIE DI QUATTRO DOCTORI: GERONIMO, GREGORIO, AGUSTINO ET AMRUGIO

by A BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED AND DATED HUMANIST ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT IN ITALIAN AND LATIN

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Italy [Florence], colophon dated 1456-57. 268 x 187 mm. (10 1/2 x 7 3/8"). 176 leaves, COMPLETE, single column, 31 lines alternating red ink for Latin and dark brown ink for Italian translation, in a very fine humanist hand. Contemporary Italian panelled calf over wooden boards, cover with mitered frame of blind rules, inner arabesque roll frame, and central panel diapered in ogival compartments formed by interlacing semi-circular rope tools, raised bands, original clasps replaced with modern hardware, edges gilt and gauffered with chevrons and flowers, expertly rebacked to style. Paragraph marks in red or blue, initial letters of each sentence in contrasting color to main text, running titles in red, 10 ORNATE WHITE VINE INITIALS, the first two very large and extending quite far down the page, the letters burnished gold and skillfully linked with white vines against a pink and green background outlined with blue and further decorated with clusters of white dots (the drawing of a crowned female head… Read More
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(THE MACKLIN BIBLE)
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(THE MACKLIN BIBLE)

by (BINDINGS - GEORG FRIEDRICH KRAUSS). BIBLE IN ENGLISH

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London: T. Bensley for T. Macklin [final volume Bensley for T. Cadell & W. Davies], 1800 [for the six volumes of the Bible], 1816 [for the Apocrypha]. First Printing of this Edition. 480 x 385 mm. (19 x 15 1/8"). One leaf in the Apocrypha (3P2, comprising two prologues of Ecclesiasticus) invisibly inserted from another copy. Seven volumes (comprising the regular Bible in six volumes, and the Apocrypha, usually not included, as a seventh volume).. ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT CONTEMPORARY RED NEOCLASSICAL-STYLE STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, SUMPTUOUSLY GILT AND ONLAID WITH BLUE, BY GEORG FRIEDRICH KRAUSS, done for Prince Albert Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Teschen (with repeated "AST" monogram), covers with very elaborate frames incorporating 11 plain and decorative gilt rules, four onlaid borders of blue morocco, and very elegant swirling foliate ornamentation around the central scalloped panel, six pairs of raised bands, each pair flanking a recessed gilt and blue metope and pentaglyph rule, very handsome spine… Read More
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LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI [AND OTHER POEMS]
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LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI [AND OTHER POEMS]

by (BINDINGS - JEWELLED). (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - MODERN). [SANGORSKI, ALBERTO, Illuminator]. KEATS, JOHN

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[London], 1928. 313 x 248 mm. (12 1/2 x 9 7/8"). 21 pp., [1] leaf (colophon). SUPERB TERRA COTTA-COLORED CRUSHED MOROCCO, LAVISHLY GILT, INLAID, AND BEJEWELLED, BY RIVIERE & SONS (stamp-signed on front turn-in), upper cover with border of inlaid turquoise morocco, inlaid green morocco frame tooled with gilt rose leaves and inlaid with 22 ivory morocco blossoms, each with a dark blue cabochon stone at center, a border of terra cotta morocco lettered in gilt with first lines of "Endymion" by Keats ("A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases / It will never pass into nothingness: But still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams and health and quiet breathing"), a thinner band of turquoise morocco enclosing a large central panel of green morocco richly tooled with curling fronds of foliage emanating from turquoise morocco hearts at corners and bearing numerous inlaid ivory morocco blossoms, central recessed medallion of turquoise morocco with gold metal "J… Read More
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SELECTED SONGS FROM THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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SELECTED SONGS FROM THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

by (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM - MODERN). SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. ALBERTO SANGORSKI, Illuminator and Calligrapher

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[London]: [D]esigned, written out, and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski [Colophon], 1920. 255 x 212 mm. (10 1/8 x 8 1/2"). 25, [3] pp. ELEGANT LIGHT OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND INLAID [by Riviere] for London bookseller Charles J. Sawyer (stamp-signed "Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd., London" on front turn-in), upper cover with inlaid mahogany-brown morocco lyre at head, "strung" with gilt fillets and surrounded by dense gilt stippling, six gilt fillets emanating from the top of this ornament and curling extravagantly below it, with inlaid green morocco leaves at the tips of its extensions, and inlaid red dots accenting the perimeter, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt and inlaid leaf sprig, gilt titling, turn-ins framed with five gilt fillets, stippled and inlaid cornerpieces, ivory moiré silk doublures and endleaves. In a fine full morocco plush-lined box with raised bands and gilt titling. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT, WITH EIGHT LARGE MINIATURES within extraordinarily elaborate illuminated… Read More
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA

by FITZGERALD, EDWARD, Translator and Editor

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London: Bernard Quaritch, 1859. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES PRINTED, with the misprint "Lightning" corrected on p. 4. 212 x 160 mm. (8 1/4 x 6 3/8"). xiii, [1], 21 pp. (followed by blank leaves added by the binder). Near-contemporary pebble-grain rose-colored buckram, flat spine with gilt lettering. In red cloth chemise and handsome later slipcase of rose polished calf, its sides with gilt-ruled border and scrolling cornerpieces, the back with raised bands, gilt compartments with floral sprig centerpiece, two black morocco labels. Front pastedown with ink owner signature of William Bell Scott (see below); title page with ink notations "Tetrastichs [sic] of Omar the Tent Maker" and "Translated by Edward Fitzgerald [sic]" in Bell's hand; marginal annotations in pencil. Rear pastedown with 1879 advertisement for the fourth edition of the Rubaiyat. Potter 1; Ashley II:121; Grolier "English" 97; See Day, "History of English Literature 1837 to Present," pp. 65-66. ◆Cloth spine and board edges… Read More
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POLYCRONICON
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POLYCRONICON

by (INCUNABULA). HIGDEN, RANULPHUS

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Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 13 April 1495. Second Edition. 275 x 194 mm. (10 3/4 x 7 1/2"). With the main body of the text complete: 1 p.l. (facsimile aa1 title page), I-CCCxlvi, [1] (facsimile?) leaf with printer's device, [35] leaves (consisting of fols. cc6-hh5 of the Table, usually bound at front of work; lacking blank hh6 and also lacking 13 preliminary leaves: aa2-8, bb1-6 (consisting of Proheme and the first part of the Table). Double columns, 41 lines in black letter type.Translated by John Trevisa. With the continuation for years 1357-1460 by William Caxton. Recent period-style blind-stamped calf by Thomas McCabe. With woodcut initials, woodcut title page (in facsimile), and printer's device (probably facsimile). Recto of n5 with musical notation. All instances of the word "pope" or related terms and all mentions of St. Thomas of Canterbury carefully struck through in ink by an early hand; occasional neat ink marginalia by a contemporary user. Front pastedown with bookplates of Robert… Read More
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LA HYPNEROTOMACHIA DI POLIPHILO, CIOÈ PUGNA D'AMORE IN SOGNO. DOU'EGLI MOSTRA, CHE TUTTE LE COSE...
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LA HYPNEROTOMACHIA DI POLIPHILO, CIOÈ PUGNA D'AMORE IN SOGNO. DOU'EGLI MOSTRA, CHE TUTTE LE COSE HUMANE NON SONO ALTRO CHE SOGNO: ET DOVE NARRA MOLT'ALTRE COSE DEGNE DI COGNITIONE

by [COLONNA, FRANCESCO]. (ALDINE IMPRINTS)

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Venetia [Venice]: in casa de' Figliuoli di Aldo, 1545. Second Printing. 310 x 212 mm. (12 1/4 x 8 3/8"). [234] leaves. Modern dark brown crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt titling to spine, gilt-ruled turn-ins, leather hinges, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With Aldine device on title page and final page, and 170 WOODCUTS, nine of which are full-page (count includes tablets with typeset text within, as per Mortimer). Mortimer 131; Sander 2057; Essling 1199; Adams C-2414; Kallendorf 302; Renouard 133:14; EDIT16 CNCE 12823; USTC 823513. See also: John Harthan, "The History of the Illustrated Book" pp. 80-82; and Martin Lowry, "The World of Aldus Manutius," pp. 120-25. ◆Title page with faint discoloration in two small marginal spots (to remove indications of ownership?), one leaf in last gathering a little browned, final three leaves (including colophon) with repair to fill small worm trail, occasional quite trivial spots to margins; in all other ways, A VERY FINE COPY--the text remarkably clean,… Read More
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WITH PROLOGUES ATTRIBUTED TO ST. JEROME AND THE INTERPRETATION OF HEBREW NAMES
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WITH PROLOGUES ATTRIBUTED TO ST. JEROME AND THE INTERPRETATION OF HEBREW NAMES

by AN EXCEPTIONAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BIBLE IN LATIN BY THE BARI ATELIER

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Paris, 3rd quarter of 13th century. 221 x 150 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 7/8"). Double column, 51 lines in a tiny gothic pearl script. [490] leaves. COMPLETE. Attractive 19th century dark brown morocco by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in), covers with blind-tooled frame flanked by thick and thin blind rules and a floral tool in each corner, raised bands, all edges gilt (subtle repairs to head and tail of spine and upper joint). Housed in a morocco-backed cloth box. Rubrics in red, capitals touched in red, chapter numbers and running titles alternately in red and blue, a great many two-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, textual corrections within red and blue cartouches, catchwords from f. 272v onwards within elaborate pen and ink cartouches in the shape of various animals, 84 LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND 81 HISTORIATED INITIALS, with an ESPECIALLY IMPRESSIVE GENESIS INITIAL MEASURING THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE PAGE, showing the seven days of Creation and the Crucifixion,… Read More
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ULYSSES
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ULYSSES

by JOYCE, JAMES. (WELLS, H. G., His Copy). (BINDINGS - SALLY LOU SMITH)

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Paris: Shakespeare and Company, May 1927. Ninth Printing of the First Edition. 205 x 160 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 1/4"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 735 pp. DRAMATIC DARK BLUE-GRAY CRUSHED MOROCCO, BLIND-TOOLED AND INLAID TO AN ABSTRACT DESIGN, BY SALLY LOU SMITH (stamp-signed with her initials in gilt on rear doublure), with overall wraparound design of inlaid elongated, irregular-shaped pieces of black, gray, blue, tan, and yellow morocco with blind-tooled lines extending from these shapes, MATCHING MOROCCO DOUBLURES tooled in gilt with branch-like lines, yellow handmade free endpapers, gray flyleaves, all edges gilt. In the matching morocco-backed clamshell box. Front flyleaf INSCRIBED BY JOYCE TO H. G. WELLS: "To / H. G. Wells / Respectfully / James Joyce / 5 November 1928 / Paris." Slocum and Cahoon 17. ◆Isolated faint foxing or marginal spots, but a clean, fresh copy with few signs of use, in a new binding. This later printing of what is generally recognized to be the most important 20th century novel in… Read More
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THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL; THE CHIMES; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH; THE BATTLE OF...
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THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL; THE CHIMES; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH; THE BATTLE OF LIFE; [and] THE HAUNTED MAN

by DICKENS, CHARLES. (BINDINGS - COSWAY)

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London: Chapman and Hall (first three); Bradbury & Evans (last two), 1843; 1845 [but 1844]; 1846 [but 1845]; 1846; 1848. FIRST EDITIONS. "Carol" in FIRST STATE (bound-in original front cover with closest interval between blind-stamped left border and left extremity of gilt wreath being 15 mm., "D" in Dickens on front cover in perfect condition); "Chimes," and "Cricket" in Second State; "Battle" with Fourth Issue of the engraved title, as usual ("Haunted" with no issue points). 167 x 102 mm. (6 5/8 x 4 1/8"). Five separately published works in five volumes.. SUPERB OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO COSWAY BINDINGS BY RIVIERE & SON FROM DESIGNS BY J. H. STONEHOUSE (stamp-signed on front turn-ins), upper covers all with two inlaid red morocco banners, that at head with title in gilt, that at foot lettered "Lord keep my Memory Green," and each binding FEATURING AT CENTER AN OVAL MINIATURE PORTRAIT BY MISS C. B. CURRIE (signed in gilt on rear turn-ins), the five showing Dickens at different ages, painted on… Read More
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USE OF ROUEN
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USE OF ROUEN

by AN ELEGANT ILLUMINATED VELLUM BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH 12 HANDSOME MINIATURES BY ROBERT BOYVIN

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Rouen, ca. 1500. 190 x 126 mm. (7 1/2 x 5"). [106] leaves. Single column, 20 lines in an attractive gothic book hand. Contents: Calendar (f. 1r); Gospel Lessons (f. 13r); Obsecro te and O Intemerata (f. 17v); Hours of the Virgin (f. 34r) lacking first leaf of Prime (Nativity miniature) and first leaf of Compline (Coronation of the Virgin miniature); Hours of the Cross (f. 59r); Hours of the Holy Spirit (f. 62r); Seven Penitential Psalms (f. 65r); Litany (f. 74r); Office of the Dead (f. 79r); Additional prayers and invocations interspersed with Ave Maria and Dominus tecum (f. 101r). Attractive 19th century diced calf by Hersent (stamp-signed in gilt on spine), covers with gilt-ruled border and panel, both with floral cornerpieces, raised bands, compartments with double gilt rules, scrolling border, and lacy centerpiece, gilt titling, gilt-rolled turn-ins, all edges gilt. Calendar in gold, blue, and red, rubrics in red, numerous one-line initials in liquid gold on blue or red ground, many two-line… Read More
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TAM O'SHANTER AND OTHER POEMS
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TAM O'SHANTER AND OTHER POEMS

by (MODERN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM). (BINDINGS - JEWELLED). SANGORSKI, ALBERTO, Designer, Calligrapher, and Illuminator. BURNS, ROBERT

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[London, 1931]. 307 x 215 mm. (12 x 8 1/2"). 40 pp., [1] leaf (colophon). DAZZLING CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, INLAID, AND BEJEWELLED, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers with inlaid light blue morocco border, blue Celtic knot strapwork at middle of each side and at corners, those on upper cover with a ruby or sapphire at center, those on lower cover with a circle of red or blue morocco at center, cornerpieces connected by a graceful loop to the blue morocco strip framing the central oval panel, the spaces between the strapwork ornaments and the inner and outer frames filled with pointillé gilt compartments tooled with gilt vines bearing inlaid white morocco flowers (upper cover) or purple morocco thistles (lower cover), a recessed medallion of green morocco at center of upper cover set WITH BURNS' INITIALS IN METAL ENCRUSTED WITH 80 JEWELS (40 CABOCHON RUBIES AND 40 CABOCHON SAPPHIRES) of varying sizes, central oval panel on lower cover with gilt lyre at center… Read More
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USE OF ROUEN
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USE OF ROUEN

by A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH EIGHT LARGE MINIATURES BY THE WORKSHOP OF THE MASTER OF THE ECHEVINAGE OF ROUEN

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Rouen, ca. 1470. 178 x 120 mm. (7 x 4 7/8"). 128 leaves. COMPLETE. Single column, 16 lines, in a gothic book hand. Contents: Calendar (f. 1r); Gospel Lessons (f. 13r); Obsecro te and O intemerata (f. 19r); Hours of the Virgin (f. 27r); Hours of the Cross (f. 67r); Hours of the Holy Spirit (f. 70r); Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany (f. 73r); Office of the Dead (f. 89r); Douce Dame and Seven Requests, in French (f. 119r). Pleasing late 17th century calf, raised bands, red morocco label with gilt lettering, vellum pastedowns and endleaves. Housed in a black cloth clamshell box backed in brown morocco, interior lined with velvet. Rubrics in red, many line-fillers in pink and blue with white highlights and gold bezants, numerous one-line initials in gilt on pink and blue ground with white highlights, 17 three- to four-line initials in pink or blue on burnished gold ground and in-filled with pink and blue ivy, EIGHT ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES surrounded by full borders of colorful acanthus, various fruits… Read More
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BIBLE. [with] EAUX-FORTES POUR LA BIBLE. in VERVE No. 33/34 [and] DESSINS POUR LA BIBLE. in VERVE...
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BIBLE. [with] EAUX-FORTES POUR LA BIBLE. in VERVE No. 33/34 [and] DESSINS POUR LA BIBLE. in VERVE No. 37/38

by CHAGALL, MARC, Illustrator. (BINDINGS - RENÉE HAAS)

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Paris: Tériade, 1956-60. NO. 21 OF 275 COPIES of the Bible on Papier Montval, SIGNED BY CHAGALL. Bible and lithograph volumes: 448 x 348 mm. (17 5/8 x 13 1/2"); "VERVE" text volume: 358 x 270 mm. (14 1/8 x 10 3/4"). Three works in four volumes. Text from the French Geneva translation of 1638. BIBLE BOUND IN DRAMATIC BLACK MOSAIC MOROCCO DESIGNED BY RENÉE HAAS (stamp-signed on front turn-in, dated 1972 on rear turn-in), covers with onlaid "flames" in shades of plum, marigold yellow, cherry red, and olive green, the design invoking a stained-glass window of the biblical Burning Bush, smooth spine with "BIBLE" in very large gilt lettering, burgundy suede endleaves, all edges gilt; original paper wrappers and WITH HAND-PAINTED BINDING DESIGNS BOUND IN at rear. Housed in chemises of black half morocco with woodgrain covers, the chemise spines with large gilt lettering matching their enclosed volumes, the whole in matching slipcases. The Eaux-Fortes and Designs for the Bible bound in black half morocco… Read More
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