SYMONDS, John Addington. Wine, Women, and Song; Medieval Latin students' songs now first translated into English verse, London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, 12°, first edition, with 17 illuminated initials, illuminated title border and tail-piece, by William Cushing Bamburgh with his monogram on rear endpaper, green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, sides with gilt fillets enclosing a field of hearts, dots and garlands interspersed with a repeated tool of two birds perched on an urn, spine in six compartments, lettered in two, with bird tool and heart motif in remaining compartments and date at foot, gilt inner dentelles with elaborate ruling and central border of hearts, leaves and dots, green silk doublures (spine faded), t.e.g., others uncut. Provenance: William Cushing Bamburgh with his monogram, and pencil note on rear endpaper, dating his work October 1902.

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SYMONDS, John Addington. Wine, Women, and Song; Medieval Latin students' songs now first translated into English verse, London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, 12°, first edition, with 17 illuminated initials, illuminated title border and tail-piece, by William Cushing Bamburgh with his monogram on rear endpaper, green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, sides with gilt fillets enclosing a field of hearts, dots and garlands interspersed with a repeated tool of two birds perched on an urn, spine in six compartments, lettered in two, with bird tool and heart motif in remaining compartments and date at foot, gilt inner dentelles with elaborate ruling and central border of hearts, leaves and dots, green silk doublures (spine faded), t.e.g., others uncut. Provenance: William Cushing Bamburgh with his monogram, and pencil note on rear endpaper, dating his work October 1902.

ATTRACTIVELY-ILLUMINATED BY BAMBURGH AND SUMPTUOUSLY-BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. With a loosely-inserted letter from the author to Arthur Symons, dated Am Hof, Davos Platz, November 26 1889, agreeing to write an introduction on his behalf.

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