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FOLIO SOCIETY LIMITED EDITION. The William Morris Manuscript of The Odes of Horace. In Two volumes Commentary by Clive Wilmer. Translation by W E Gladstone.
The Folio Society. London 2014
The Folio Society. London. 2014. LIMITED EDITION OF 980 COPIES, this being number 398. In two volumes. Volume one is a facsimile edition of the William Morris Manuscript of The Odes of Horace reproduced from the original in the Bodleian Library, in full colour and gilt. Small 8vo. Very handsomely bound in full brown Indian goatskin, gilt. Volume two is a large slim 4to book with green paper-covered boards with gilt text and border to front cover. The text within is W. E. Gladstone's translation of the Odes with a Commentary by Clive Wilmer. Both volumes are presented in a beautifully constructed box designed by David Eccles, which has the smaller leather volume sitting in a red velvet lined framed box with ribbon to allow easy removal of book. The larger volume sits neatly above so that both are tightly protected by green clam-shell box which is decorated in gilt and silver. A stunning set. 80312
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LYGATE, John. The Life of St Edmund King and Martyr: The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund in MS Harley 2278 by John Lydgate: Introduction, Transcript & Commentary by A S G Edwards. LIMITED FOLIO SOCIETY EDITION OF 1000 COPIES.
The Folio Society. London 2004
The Folio Society. London. 2004. In two volumes. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000 COPIES, this being number 676. Volume I is a masterpiece of the art of facsimile and is bound in full Nigerian goatskin, decorated in gilt with leather onlays, decorated in gilt, red and blue, over bevelled board and with handmade laid-paper endpapers. The text is reproduced from the original manuscript in the British Library in full colour printed on Furiosa paper made in Switzerland with added gilt to initial letters and illustrations. All edges of pages gilt, red silk ribbon bookmark. The second volume is the text transcribed into a readable form with notes and an introduction. This volume is bound in matching decorated dark green cloth gilt. Very slight signs of use to leather volume otherwise a fine set in green cloth solander box with red leather label, text in black and ruled in gilt. 80311
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MERIAN, Maria Sybella. Commentary by Julie HARVEY. The Surinam Album. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES.
The Folio Society. London 2006
The Folio Society. 2006. LIMITED TO 1000, this being number 219. First edition. Elephant folio in size. Quarter bound in green morocco gilt. 91 tipped-in colour facsimiles of the collection of originals in the British Museum, reproduced by digital photography and printed at Cambridge University Press on Furioso paper. The album has been hand-bound by Smith Settle, Yeadon, Yorkshire, using Merian Wove tone rag-content paper for the leaves, Nigerian goat-skin green leather for the spine, and light brown cloth sides foil-blocked with a design by David Eccles based on plate 38, the hawkmoth. Maria Sibylla Merian was one of the top natural history artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Together with an introductory booklet by Harvey. Both volumes housed in a large clamshell box with leather lettering piece. 80320
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