Price: £175
Subject: Theology
Published Date: [1863]
Stock Number: 68150
(Your basket is currently empty)With administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church... Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David...
Description: title verso with illustration of Elizabeth I at prayer, text of every page within intricately historiated or decorated border, with designs after Durer and his contemporaries, initial and final leaves faintly spotted, unpaginated, 8vo terracotta grained morocco with blind-stamped design overlaid with ruled gilt on the upper board with fleur-de-lys corner-pieces and ER medallions, spine blind-stamped and lettered in glt, all edges gilt, spine head and foot slightly pushed, spine and board edges toned, very goodPublication Details: Bickers and Son, [1863]
Notes: The arabesque borders taken from Geofroy Tory's sixteenth-century decorations 'are remarkable for the elegance and lightness of their design... the volume... it is believed will be found suitable for a Wedding Present or a Christmas Gift.' (Notes on Books, Longmans, Green & Co, 1865 vol 2).
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