Sales catalogue 338: Ellis

Date:
c.1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/33/24
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 338: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the first Refiner of Italian prose: And now translated into English. Printed by Isaac Jaggard, for Mathew Lownes, 1625.—The Decameron containing an hundred pleasant Nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seuen Honourable Ladies, and three Noble Gentlemen. The last Fiue Dayes. London, Printed by Isaac Jaggard, 1620. 2 parts in 1 vol., folio, with beautiful woodcut titles to each part, and numerous woodcuts in the text, fine tall copy (the last leaf mended and backed), handsomely bound in red morocco super extra, richly tooled, gilt edges, £32. From the Library of C. W. H. SOTHEBY. The First Translation into English of Boccaccio’s Decameron, of rare occurrence. BOOKE (A) of Christian Prayers, collected out of the ancient writers, and best learned in our time, worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians, in these dangerous and troublesome daies, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercifull vnto us. At London, Printed by Richard Yardley, and Peter Short, for the assignes of Richard Day, 1590. Sm. 4to, BLACK LETTER, with full-length woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth and woodcut borders to every page, a few corners defective, slightly affecting the text, brown morocco, gilt and blind tooled, gilt edges, £12 12s. From the DUKE oF RICHMOND’s Library at Gordon Castle. The woodcut borders to the Dance of Death are very remarkable as original designs by an English artist of the sixteenth century, and very valuable as containing the contemporary costume of the various conditions and ranks in England in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I. The persons figured in these designs include “the emperour, the king, the duke, the marques, the baron, the viscount, the archbishop, the bishop, the
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