Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/21
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    English Royal Bindings—cozz:nued. King James I. 202 TACITUS. THE ANNALES OF CORNELIUS TACITUS. ‘Translated by Richard Grenewey. Folio... 1612. CONTEMPORARY CALF Wilt THE ROYAL ARMS OF KING [AMES 1 IN CENTRE OF BACH SIDE, THE COVERS PUR] Her PINISHED WITH GOLD LINES, AND FROM THE CORN @eoe Pe ACte ANGLE foSPRAY OF OAK LEAVES AND ACORNS:. £8 8s Henry Prince of Wales (Elder son of James I.). 203 CARMINUM POETARUM NOVEM, LYRICAE POESEOS PRINCIPUM FRAGMENTA, ALCAEI SAPPHUS STESICHORI, IBYCI, ANACREONTIS BACCHYLIDIS, SAI- MONDIS, ALCMANIS, PINDARI, CUM LATINA INTERPRETATIONE. , Ruled with red lines. 12mo. Paris, Paul Estienne, 1600. BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY OLIVE MOROCCO, FOR HENRY PRINCE OF WALES, LINE FRAMES AND BORDERS, FLEUR-DE- LYS APE CORNERS WITH THE CROWNED CIPHER IN - THE CENTRE OF EACH COVER; THE BACK IS TOOLED WITH LEAFY SPRAYS IN THE STYLE OF CLOVIS EVE, G. E., PRESERVED INA MOROCCO SEIP CASE. £52 10s King Charles ll. : 204 THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER And Administration Of the SACRAMENTS, And other RITES & CEREMONIES Of the CHURCH, According to the life Of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND. ‘Together with the PSALTER or PSALMS of DAVID, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches; And the Form & Manner of Making, Ordaining & Consecrating of BISHOPS, PRIESTS, and DEACONS. Large Paper Copy ruled with red lines (and, containing the office At the Healing before the Psalter). ' Folio. London, 1660. A MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE OF MEARNE’S BINDING MADE FOR ‘KING CHARLES i BLACK MOROCCO, GILT EDGES; THE SIDES AND BACK MOST ELABORATELY. COVERED WITH GOLD AND BLIND ORNAMENTAL TOOLING OF FLORAL SPRAYS. ON THE FORE-EDGE UNDER THE GOLD, IS PAINTED (BY A CONTEM- PORARY HAND) THE ROYAL ARMS WITH THE KING’S MONO- GRAM, AND MOTTO. (SEE ILLUSTRATIONS, PLATES Nos.-V. AND Va.). £75
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