Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 266

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Essex House Press.
Psalter or Psalms of David from the Bible of Archbishop Cranmer.

London & New York: Essex House, published in England by Edward Arnold and New York by Samuel Buckley & Co., 1902.

Folio, limited edition, copy number 118 of 250 printed on paper; this copy with initials hand-colored in a broad palette highlighted with gilt-washed embellishments throughout; bound in period full stencil-decorated red and brown morocco, enhanced with gilt ruling and a tooled panel, spines tooled in gilt; silk endleaves, top edge gilt (preliminary and final blanks warped, light stain to upper blank margin; front board detached, small losses at spine ends, silk endleaves soiled with significant dampstaining); 11 1/2 x 8 in.