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SANGORSKI, Alberto, calligrapher and illuminator -- TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. "Lady Godiva." [London, 1911].
4o (254 x 186 mm). ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 8 leaves (i.e. written or decorated on 12 pages, including colophon), plus 5 blank vellum leaves at front and 5 at rear, written in a simi-gothic script in black, with some initial letters or words in red. Frontispiece with full-page miniature of Lady Godiva, initial-signed and dated by Sangorski, surrounded by a finely illuminated floral border in colors with burnished gold; title-page with large illuminated initial G in colors against a burnished gold ground with full-border extensions similarly decorated; the first page of text with large initial N incorporated into a richly decorated full border in colors and gilt; 5 larger illuminated initials with backgrounds and extensions or borders of various colors and burnished gold, other smaller initials in red and gold.
Bound in full blue morocco by Riviere and Son, covers with single gilt fillet around an elaborate interlaced gilt strapwork panel border filled with a gilt-dot ground, surrounding central panel with elaborate inlaid floral and interlace cornerpieces with gilt-dot grounds, front cover with central inlaid coat-of-arms with motto "Camera Principis," spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt-dot panel with central onlaid circle in the rest, board edges double gilt-ruled, turn-ins with strapwork interlace design against gilt-dot ground, doublures and free endpages of cream watered silk, edges gilt; green straight-grained morocco clamshell box. Provenance: purchased from John G. Kidd & Son, Inc., Cincinnati, 13 December 1945.
Colophon statement: "This manuscript 'Lady Godiva' by Alfred Lord Tennyson, was written out, illuminated, and bound by Messrs r. Riviere & Son London, and will not be duplicated. This manuscript was executed by me [signed:] Alberto Sangorski."
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Bound in full blue morocco by Riviere and Son, covers with single gilt fillet around an elaborate interlaced gilt strapwork panel border filled with a gilt-dot ground, surrounding central panel with elaborate inlaid floral and interlace cornerpieces with gilt-dot grounds, front cover with central inlaid coat-of-arms with motto "Camera Principis," spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt-dot panel with central onlaid circle in the rest, board edges double gilt-ruled, turn-ins with strapwork interlace design against gilt-dot ground, doublures and free endpages of cream watered silk, edges gilt; green straight-grained morocco clamshell box. Provenance: purchased from John G. Kidd & Son, Inc., Cincinnati, 13 December 1945.
Colophon statement: "This manuscript 'Lady Godiva' by Alfred Lord Tennyson, was written out, illuminated, and bound by Messrs r. Riviere & Son London, and will not be duplicated. This manuscript was executed by me [signed:] Alberto Sangorski."