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SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders, calligraphers and illuminators. EDMUND SPENSER. "Epithalamion" [London c. 1920].
Folio, 260 x 191 x 15mm. (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 1/2in.). A JEWELLED BINDING WITH 10 JEWELS ON AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, brown levant morocco, bevelled edges, upper cover with gilt fillet and gilt dotted border around a broad panel border in eight compartments of onlaid white morocco Tudor rose, green leaf, gilt stem and thorn, framed with onlaid turquoise morocco gilt strapwork extending around each panel and interwoven into four large circular cornerpiece supports each with a single garnet at its center, enclosing a central panel of darker brown morocco containing an onlaid red and white morocco Tudor rose in bloom set with a garnet in the center amidst five turquoises, the flower framed with an onlaid design of leaves in two shades of green morocco, against a background of climbing onlaid white rose, green leaf, gilt stem and thorn; lower cover similar but without the stones; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, white climbing rose in the rest; doublures of dark brown levant morocco with multiple gilt fillets and a dotted line border, all framed by onlaid turquoise morocco strap border, corner ornaments of onlaid white, green and red morocco triple-headed Tudor rose, around a large central panel of green morocco, free endpages of brown silk, g.e., stamp-signed on the upper doublure: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London," original green morocco velvet and satin-lined box with hinged lids (discreet repairs to box).
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM 13 leaves (i.e. written or decorated on 24 pages, including colophon), plus 4 blank vellum flyleaves at front and 3 at back, plus a paper flyleaf at front and back, written in a fine upright open Roman cursive script in black with verse opening letters in alternating red, blue, green and gold, line opening initials mostly in red; large opening miniature of Hymen above the title written in five lines of sanguine, facing page with a slightly smaller miniature showing an eager lutist, these two pages with intricate full page-borders of swirling vine in red, green, blue and gold, two further 13-line historiated initials incorporating quarter-page borders of medieval style in gold and colors. Colophon statement: "This copy...written out, illuminated and bound by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe of London. For Gannon and Cassidy of New York. Registered design No. 574636."
Provenance: Phoebe A.D. Boyle, Brooklyn, New York, bookplate (sale, Anderson, 20 November 1923, lot 312).
Folio, 260 x 191 x 15mm. (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 1/2in.). A JEWELLED BINDING WITH 10 JEWELS ON AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, brown levant morocco, bevelled edges, upper cover with gilt fillet and gilt dotted border around a broad panel border in eight compartments of onlaid white morocco Tudor rose, green leaf, gilt stem and thorn, framed with onlaid turquoise morocco gilt strapwork extending around each panel and interwoven into four large circular cornerpiece supports each with a single garnet at its center, enclosing a central panel of darker brown morocco containing an onlaid red and white morocco Tudor rose in bloom set with a garnet in the center amidst five turquoises, the flower framed with an onlaid design of leaves in two shades of green morocco, against a background of climbing onlaid white rose, green leaf, gilt stem and thorn; lower cover similar but without the stones; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, white climbing rose in the rest; doublures of dark brown levant morocco with multiple gilt fillets and a dotted line border, all framed by onlaid turquoise morocco strap border, corner ornaments of onlaid white, green and red morocco triple-headed Tudor rose, around a large central panel of green morocco, free endpages of brown silk, g.e., stamp-signed on the upper doublure: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London," original green morocco velvet and satin-lined box with hinged lids (discreet repairs to box).
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM 13 leaves (i.e. written or decorated on 24 pages, including colophon), plus 4 blank vellum flyleaves at front and 3 at back, plus a paper flyleaf at front and back, written in a fine upright open Roman cursive script in black with verse opening letters in alternating red, blue, green and gold, line opening initials mostly in red; large opening miniature of Hymen above the title written in five lines of sanguine, facing page with a slightly smaller miniature showing an eager lutist, these two pages with intricate full page-borders of swirling vine in red, green, blue and gold, two further 13-line historiated initials incorporating quarter-page borders of medieval style in gold and colors. Colophon statement: "This copy...written out, illuminated and bound by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe of London. For Gannon and Cassidy of New York. Registered design No. 574636."
Provenance: Phoebe A.D. Boyle, Brooklyn, New York, bookplate (sale, Anderson, 20 November 1923, lot 312).