Style of ALBERTO SANGORSKI,calligrapher and illuminator. GRAY, THOMAS. Elegy written in a Country-Churchyard, n.d. Oblong 4to, binding: 190 x 280 x 12mm. (7 1/2 x 11 x 1/2in.), dark blue morocco, cover with triple gilt fillet; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment, each comparment gilt panelled; board edges and turn-ins gilt, gray morocco doublures, gray watered silk free endpages, g.e., silk parted at fore-edge of upper endleaf, blue morocco slipcase. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON THICK VELLUM, 7 leaves, on linen guards, with paper fly-leaves at front and back, white satin interleaves; comprising title-page (verso blank), frontispiece (verso blank), 9 pages for the poem (blank verso at end), written in a fine upright wide and open roman script in black with gold underlining, title-page partly in gold and red, title above the poem in gold and the opening word in red, headline of last page in gold, a total of 37 gold initials on variously colored backgrounds with fine penwork tracery, one initial on title-page with a blue acanthus and ivy extension, the opening initial of the poem in purple with blue green and maroon marginal extension and extensive mauve penwork, full-page frontispiece oval medallion miniature of the Church and churchyard (110 x 125mm., 4 1/4 x 5in.) in an elaborate broad border of gold and stylized leaf in various colors, a small rectangular miniature at the end (48 x 79mm., 1 7/8 x 3 1/8in.) in a similar border. (Maxwell)Provenance: Edith Rockefeller McCormick?

Style of ALBERTO SANGORSKI,calligrapher and illuminator. GRAY, THOMAS. Elegy written in a Country-Churchyard, n.d. Oblong 4to, binding: 190 x 280 x 12mm. (7 1/2 x 11 x 1/2in.), dark blue morocco, cover with triple gilt fillet; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment, each comparment gilt panelled; board edges and turn-ins gilt, gray morocco doublures, gray watered silk free endpages, g.e., silk parted at fore-edge of upper endleaf, blue morocco slipcase. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON THICK VELLUM, 7 leaves, on linen guards, with paper fly-leaves at front and back, white satin interleaves; comprising title-page (verso blank), frontispiece (verso blank), 9 pages for the poem (blank verso at end), written in a fine upright wide and open roman script in black with gold underlining, title-page partly in gold and red, title above the poem in gold and the opening word in red, headline of last page in gold, a total of 37 gold initials on variously colored backgrounds with fine penwork tracery, one initial on title-page with a blue acanthus and ivy extension, the opening initial of the poem in purple with blue green and maroon marginal extension and extensive mauve penwork, full-page frontispiece oval medallion miniature of the Church and churchyard (110 x 125mm., 4 1/4 x 5in.) in an elaborate broad border of gold and stylized leaf in various colors, a small rectangular miniature at the end (48 x 79mm., 1 7/8 x 3 1/8in.) in a similar border. (Maxwell) Provenance: Edith Rockefeller McCormick?

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Style of ALBERTO SANGORSKI,calligrapher and illuminator. GRAY, THOMAS. Elegy written in a Country-Churchyard, n.d. Oblong 4to, binding: 190 x 280 x 12mm. (7 1/2 x 11 x 1/2in.), dark blue morocco, cover with triple gilt fillet; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment, each comparment gilt panelled; board edges and turn-ins gilt, gray morocco doublures, gray watered silk free endpages, g.e., silk parted at fore-edge of upper endleaf, blue morocco slipcase. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON THICK VELLUM, 7 leaves, on linen guards, with paper fly-leaves at front and back, white satin interleaves; comprising title-page (verso blank), frontispiece (verso blank), 9 pages for the poem (blank verso at end), written in a fine upright wide and open roman script in black with gold underlining, title-page partly in gold and red, title above the poem in gold and the opening word in red, headline of last page in gold, a total of 37 gold initials on variously colored backgrounds with fine penwork tracery, one initial on title-page with a blue acanthus and ivy extension, the opening initial of the poem in purple with blue green and maroon marginal extension and extensive mauve penwork, full-page frontispiece oval medallion miniature of the Church and churchyard (110 x 125mm., 4 1/4 x 5in.) in an elaborate broad border of gold and stylized leaf in various colors, a small rectangular miniature at the end (48 x 79mm., 1 7/8 x 3 1/8in.) in a similar border. (Maxwell)

Provenance: Edith Rockefeller McCormick?