Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:: 23-26 July 1928

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/753

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

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$1018 1019 1021 under the Hand and Seal of \William Shakespeare : including the Tragedy of King Lear and a small fragment of Hamlet from the original MSS. facsimiles, two coloured, half calf 1796 only (nos. 105-208), without general title, half sheepskin, broken Mar. 1751-Mar. 1752 vol. I (pp 4—-Nnnn 6), wants 225 leaves at beginning and 10 at end, vellum ; sold not subject to return [1616] (should be 318) ll., wants last with register, colophon and device only, two columns, teat surrounded by commentary; initials supplied in blue, stamped calf over wooden boards, joints broken, brass catches, clasps wanting | Hain, *9619 3 Proctor, 4655] | Venice, Baptista de Tortis, 29 July, 1496] panelled calf, goints mended ; sold not subjcct to return The Hague, 1599 Romanos et ad Corinthios I ex SS. patribus Ambrosio, Hieronymo, Augustino, aliisque, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 160 Zl. 2 columns, 22 lines (text) and 44 lines (commentary), Jour large painted initials, smaller initials and marginalia in red, vellum; from the Ashburnham (Appendia No. 86) and Dunn collections XII CENT. jirst and last (both blank), vol. II, 248 Ul., wants first and last (both blank), initials illuminated in gold and colours, other initials and paragraph marks in alternate red and blue, initial strokes in yellow, small defect (text restored) in H 8, calf, back gilt, the signature “ Alexr. Boswel” on fly-leaf, in a lined case {| Hain, *12141 ; Proctor, *7157 (cp. *4786)] Vicenza, Hermann Lichtenstein, May—Aug., 1480 Vol. II is the second issue, with the three inner sheets of the last quire reprinted and carrying a colophon dated “ Venice, 21 Sept. 1484”; the remainder of the volume was printed at Vicenza in Aug. 1480. Jour shaved at fore-edge, half calf gilt Frankfurt, 1598$

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