Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SHAW, HENRY. Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth Centuries. Illuminated half-title, title-page printed in red and black, and 59 hand-colored lithographs, drawn and engraved by Shaw with descriptions by Sir Frederic Madden. 4to, contemporary gilt-lettered black morocco, extremities worn; edges trimmed and gilt, occasional mild foxing, otherwise colors bright. Bookplate of Robert Biddulph Phillipps, Esq. London: William Pickering, 1833

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"Marvelous series of hand-illuminated plates recording ornaments and decorations from the middle ages to the renaissance; quite scarce in all editions"--Mc Lean, Victorian Book Design, page 65.