PRINTED PAGES FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE.
London: Society of Foliophiles, 1925.
Limited to 200 copies, this no, 147. Portfolio of 20 original leaves each laid loose in a folder printed with a brief description. The folders laid loose in a solander type box of paper-covered card material with paper spine and covers labels. The box itself is worn and chipped, contents fine. Item #20958
Leaves include: A Catholike and Ecclesiasticall Exposition, printed by Thomas Marshe, 1575; Sermons of John Calvin printed by Henry Middleton, 1583; Collected Works of Thomas Bacon printed by John Day, 1564; Chaucer's Collected Works printed by Adam Islip, 1598; William Camden's Annalles of Elizabeth printed for Benjamin Fisher, 1625; Milton's Paradise Lost, London, 1667; First King James Bible printed by Robert Barker, 1612; Thesaurus Brevium London, 1687; Lucan's Pharsalia printed by Jacob Tonson, 1718; Evening Post of London, 1810; A New Collection of Voyages and Travels printed by Thomas Astley, 1745: Pharsalia from Walpole's Strawberry Press' 1760; Scott's Marmion printed by J. Ballantyne, 1808; Homer's Odyssey Oxford University Press, 1909; Morris' Child Christopher and Goldiolind, Kelmscott Press, 1895; Master Wace Chronicle, William Pickering , 1837; Book of Common Prayer, John Baskerville, 1762; First Old Testament in Irish, London, 1685; Breviary "Portiforium" London, 1555; John Minsheu's A Guide to the Tongues printed for John Browne London, 1617.
Price: $750.00