Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 10,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT / SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE.) Of Gardens, An Essay. By Francis Bacon. Illuminated and bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in gold and colors, 21 pages on vellum, includes frontispiece/title with a large miniature detailed in gold, first sheet with a large missal border in gilt and colors and final sheet with small initial and border. 8vo, bound in full green crushed morocco, all edges gilt, sun-dial central device tooled in gilt on the front cover within roses inlaid in red levant and gold tooled leaves in the corners, spine gilt in compartments (light wear to head and foot of spine and top of rear joint); wide gilt turn ins, silk endpapers, leather bookplate; cloth slipcase. Superb manuscript finely bound. London, nd [c. 1910]