Oct 01, 2014 - Sale 2358

Sale 2358 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(JONES, OWEN.) The Victoria Psalter: The Psalms of David, Illuminated. Chromolithographed frontispiece, title, double-page dedication, and 100 numbered text pages, all rendered in gold and colors on stiff card. Folio, publisher's relievo leather covers and spine with acanthus motif, lettered "The Victoria Psalter" on the front cover and with the Queen's monogram "VR" on rear cover, some mild rubbing to edges and tips, early gentle repairs to spine ends; all edges gilt, rehinged and endpapers renewed with marbled paper, scattered light foxing, mostly to blanks and leaves at front and end, a few leaves a bit loose. London: [Day & Son, 1861]

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a masterpiece of victorian binding and illumination by jones. McLean, Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings, 1974, page 103.