Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1906
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/221
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    translated by R. Ledos de Beaufort, 5 vol. portraits, ete. 1891-2 — Nashe (T.) Works, edited by R. B. McKerrow, 3 vol. 1904 8vo. (8) lit. rom. long lines, 44 to a full-page, without marks (Hain *15236), contemporary oaken boards, half stamped pigskin, Jine clean copy Solio. Absque ulla nota [typis Reyserianis, 14—] Creswick, Maclise, etc. 1857—Rogers (S.) Poetical Works, 128 engravings from designs of Turner and Stothard, 1869 —Byron (Lord) Works, 200 engravings, by Meadows, H. K. Browne, etc. imp. 8vo, half calf, m. e. n. d. ; ete. Terenti® cum Directorio, Glosa interlineali Com- mentariis Donato, Guidone, Ascensio, ete. Ut. rom. several types, large cut on reverse of fol. I, 7 other full-page cuts and 157 smaller ones (wants title), otherwise a very good copy, modern boards sm. folio. Argent. Jo. Griininger, 1496 *, The FIRST EDITION of Terence with these remarkable early theatrical woodcuts, some of which are reproduced in Dibdin’s Spencer Catalogue. Codicibus summa diligenter castigatae, nwmerous fine small Ltalian outline woodcut scenes, and ornamental initials, vellum Jolio. Venet. H. Scotus, 1545 So st ee Oy eee ee ——— Prologis 8, Hieronymi et Canones Eusebii, MANUSCRIPT ON THICK VELLUM (198 Jl. including 4 blanks, 174 by 12 in.) jinely written in large gathte letter (the “ Capitula” in smaller letter), double columns, 30 lines; 36 FINE LARGE PAINTED ORNAMENTAL INITIALS OF CHAINS AND FLOREATE SPIRALS, the long initials having figures of the Apostles, the colours being blue, green, white, brown and red, gold very sparingly used in only a few of them; the 6 ll. occupied by the Husebian Canons aré FINELY DECORATED WITH INTERSECTED ARCADES SUP- PORTED BY FIVE COLUMNS extending down the whole of each page, and there are numerous ornamental pen-letters through- out, oaken boards, modern blue morocco, with stamped blind ornaments, g. é. large folio. Sac. xu A REMARKABLY FINE MANUSCRIPT, in which the Apocryphal Epistle of 8. Paul to the Laodiceans follows the Epistle to Philemon. It is probably of Eastern-French workmanship about the end of the XIIth century, and appears to have formerly belonged to a Carthusian Monastery at Dijon. The character of the decorations is unusual. From Wm. Morris’s LIBRARY with his printed Kelmscott House label. It sold in his sale in 1898 for £225.
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