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ROXBURGHE CLUB -- The Apocalypse of S. John the Divine, represented by figures reproduced in facsimile from a MS. in the Bodleian Library. Presented, with a preface, by the Rev. Henry Octavius Coxe. London: Nichols and Sons for the Roxburghe Club, 1876.
4o (260 x 180 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation: \kp\K2 (half-title, title in red and black), frontispiece, a4 (lists of members); b-d4 e2 (preface); 46 lithographic facsimile plates on 23 leaves, mostly two illustrations to the page, ALL FINELY HAND-COLORED. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Original brown quarter-roan pull-off case. Provenance: Rev. Edward Tindal Turner (Oxford University Registrar, fellow of Brasenose), his name red-printed in the member's list -- H.W.L. (armorial bookplate dated 1917).
Vellum copies of this Roxburghe Club publication are EXTREMELY RARE and no doubt very few were issued. The vellum surface takes the watercolor paint particularly well, resulting in faithful reproductions of the 13th-century English illustrations in Bodleian MS. Auct. D. 4.17.
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Vellum copies of this Roxburghe Club publication are EXTREMELY RARE and no doubt very few were issued. The vellum surface takes the watercolor paint particularly well, resulting in faithful reproductions of the 13th-century English illustrations in Bodleian MS. Auct. D. 4.17.