Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ILLUMINATED RELIGIOUS MANUSCRIPT.) The Anglican Missal, Being the Order for the Administration of the Holy Communion According to the Use of the Church of England. Title-page and 64 pages on stiff paper, text printed in black and red Gothic type, within printed borders, extensively hand-illuminated in colors and gilt with several miniatures and elaborate borders, each page with applied leather tab along fore edge. Small folio, rebound in 20th century red morocco with simple gilt borders and corner pieces, stamped George Parkinson Library Binder, Swansea on rear endpaper. Oxford: Mowbray, 1869

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A curious volume, illuminated with both skilled application of greater detail and contemporary coloring and, alternately, with some pages in a more naïve hand.