Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/567
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 printed in red and black, two woodcuts (besides the cuts printed in the word-squares), blank lower half of title and bottom margin of newt leaf cut away and roughly mended, 10 leaves water-stained at fore-edge, half vellum Pforzheim, T. Anselm, 1503 * as there are lines in the poem: each piece is printed in the form of a word-square opposite the text, with woodcut figures or diagrams (the latter in red) superimposed. ‘The initial letters are printed from wood blocks and not (as stated in the Fairfax Murray sale catalogue, Dec. 1917) painted. Raspono (Caesare) De Basilica et Patriarchio Lateranensi, engraved title and 7 folding plates, calf (defective), arms of Ralph Sheldon in gilt on sides, Rome, 1657 ; ete. (3) Reynolds (H. E.) Wells Cathedral ; its Foundation, Constitu- tional History and Statutes, plates, half morecco, t. i g. 1881 Rodericus (Bishop of Zamora) Speculum vite humane, wants Jol. 48, stamp on title, sheep | Proctor 9981], Strassburg, J. Priiss, 1507; Rituam ecclesiasticorum sive sacrarum ceremoniarum 8.8. Romanae Ecclesiae libri III non ante impressi, calf (damaged), Venice, Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1516; ete. (3) SHAKESPEARE (William) Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, facsimile of the first folio edition, 1623, from the Chatsworth copy, with introduction and census of copies by S. Lee, rough calf, with ties, in cardboard box, as issued Oxford, 1902 SHAKESPEARE (W.) Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, repro- duced in facsimile from the original editions, 1623, 1632, 1664, 1685, 4 vol. portrazts, boards, unopened Methuen, 1904-10 Slatyer (William) [Palw-Albion] The History of Great Britanie, Latin and English on alternate pages, engraved title in compartments, containing 10 portraits, wants (as usual) Dd 4 with colophon and imprimatur, moroceo gilt (rubbed), inside borders, g. e. W. Stansby [1621] Solinus (C. J.) Polyhistor; Pomponius Mela, De Situ Orbis, no title, begins on Al, 2 folding, 3 full-page, and many smaller maps, boards, Bdle, 1543 ; ete. (2) Spenser (Edmund) Works, first collected edition re-issued with new title, 2 vol. in 1, ¢¢tle within woodcut border (defective), next leaf margined, small defect in last three leaves of vol. I, half calf 1617
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