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Alberto Sangorski illuminated manuscript, 1932
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Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality
Alberto Sangorski illuminated manuscript, 1932
SANGORSKI, Alberto (1862-1932), illuminator. WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850). “An Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.” [London, 1932.]
“The child is Father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.”
A marvelous late manuscript by Alberto Sangorski including 15 miniatures of the highest execution depicting childhood pleasures in the idyllic countryside. The illuminated borders are further enriched with several woodland creatures. The certification leaf at the end reads: “This manuscript … was designed, written out and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski. This manuscript will not be duplicated,” and is signed by Sangorski.
Large quarto (296 x 215mm). Illuminated manuscript on vellum, 13 leaves, plus 4 blank vellum leaves, mounted on guards. Title in red and gold with full leafy border in tooled gold and colors incorporating a portrait miniature of Wordsworth; full-page frontispiece painting of children at play in a meadow with full border, captioned with two lines of verse; text of the poems on pp. [5]-19, each page with one or more large initials and full or nearly full illuminated borders which frequently incorporate miniatures, plus a full-page miniature of children picking flowers set within a border inhabited by two birds, a squirrel and a rabbit; biography of Wordsworth on pp. 21-23 with illuminated opening initial and two gold-bordered miniatures for a TOTAL OF 15 MINIATURES, two of which are full-page and most of which are signed with Sangorski’s cypher. Full crushed dark blue morocco janseniste, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue moiré silk endleaves. Roan box lined with fleece (box defective).
Provenance: Anderson Galleries, 1 April 1937, lot 416 - Sotheby's New York, 26 June 1998, lot 548.
Alberto Sangorski illuminated manuscript, 1932
SANGORSKI, Alberto (1862-1932), illuminator. WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850). “An Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.” [London, 1932.]
“The child is Father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.”
A marvelous late manuscript by Alberto Sangorski including 15 miniatures of the highest execution depicting childhood pleasures in the idyllic countryside. The illuminated borders are further enriched with several woodland creatures. The certification leaf at the end reads: “This manuscript … was designed, written out and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski. This manuscript will not be duplicated,” and is signed by Sangorski.
Large quarto (296 x 215mm). Illuminated manuscript on vellum, 13 leaves, plus 4 blank vellum leaves, mounted on guards. Title in red and gold with full leafy border in tooled gold and colors incorporating a portrait miniature of Wordsworth; full-page frontispiece painting of children at play in a meadow with full border, captioned with two lines of verse; text of the poems on pp. [5]-19, each page with one or more large initials and full or nearly full illuminated borders which frequently incorporate miniatures, plus a full-page miniature of children picking flowers set within a border inhabited by two birds, a squirrel and a rabbit; biography of Wordsworth on pp. 21-23 with illuminated opening initial and two gold-bordered miniatures for a TOTAL OF 15 MINIATURES, two of which are full-page and most of which are signed with Sangorski’s cypher. Full crushed dark blue morocco janseniste, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue moiré silk endleaves. Roan box lined with fleece (box defective).
Provenance: Anderson Galleries, 1 April 1937, lot 416 - Sotheby's New York, 26 June 1998, lot 548.
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