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GEORGE III BINDING -- Cardanus RIDER (pseudonym). Rider's British Merlin for the year ... 1762. London: H. Woodfall for the Company of Stationers, 1762.
12° (130 x 77mm). Signature A in red and black. Astrological woodcut. Interleaved, preliminary blanks include 4 leaves of ass's skin for marking with a stylus. Contemporary red morocco gilt, side panels with repeated design of Royal crown within rose and thistle, at centre the Royal cypher ensigned by a larger crown, spine dated in one compartment, the remainder tooled with Royal cypher or rose and thistle, white metal bosses engraved with crowned G.R. monogram, white metal clasps holding stylus, marbled endpapers, inner pockets of 'Dutch' floral paper, gilt edges (spine worn at foot). Provenance: George III's gift to Jane Moore (with stylus inscription: 'This almanac was given you on Wednesday the 17th of Feb. as a small token of the sincere love & friendship I bear you. Yours till death GR,' and faint inscription opposite: 'This book was given to my Great Great aunt Mrs Jane Moor who was house keeper at St. James's Palace'; with a further sylus inscription attributed to Queen Charlotte). Exhibited: The Hanover Exhibition no. 246 - 3 (exhibition label). AN ATTRACTIVE ROYAL BINDING FROM EARLY IN THE KING'S REIGN, identical to a binding on Rider's British Merlin for 1761 sold at Sotheby's, 18 December 1986, lot 216. Sold with two other almanacs for 1737 and 1767 both in red moroccco. (3)
12° (130 x 77mm). Signature A in red and black. Astrological woodcut. Interleaved, preliminary blanks include 4 leaves of ass's skin for marking with a stylus. Contemporary red morocco gilt, side panels with repeated design of Royal crown within rose and thistle, at centre the Royal cypher ensigned by a larger crown, spine dated in one compartment, the remainder tooled with Royal cypher or rose and thistle, white metal bosses engraved with crowned G.R. monogram, white metal clasps holding stylus, marbled endpapers, inner pockets of 'Dutch' floral paper, gilt edges (spine worn at foot). Provenance: George III's gift to Jane Moore (with stylus inscription: 'This almanac was given you on Wednesday the 17th of Feb. as a small token of the sincere love & friendship I bear you. Yours till death GR,' and faint inscription opposite: 'This book was given to my Great Great aunt Mrs Jane Moor who was house keeper at St. James's Palace'; with a further sylus inscription attributed to Queen Charlotte). Exhibited: The Hanover Exhibition no. 246 - 3 (exhibition label). AN ATTRACTIVE ROYAL BINDING FROM EARLY IN THE KING'S REIGN, identical to a binding on Rider's British Merlin for 1761 sold at Sotheby's, 18 December 1986, lot 216. Sold with two other almanacs for 1737 and 1767 both in red moroccco. (3)
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