1883 Large New Testament Deluxe Victorian Presentation Copy

Edité par Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1883

An extremely eye-catching high-end Victorian presentation New Testament. A large quarto book with ornate decoration to front and spine. Published in 1883 by Longmans, Green & Co., London. Richly illustrated throughout with wood engravings taken from designs by major Renaissance artists ? including Fra Angelico, Perugino, Francia, Lorenzo di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio Ferrari, and Daniel da Volterra. In very good condition, more details below.

Inside the pages are clean and tightly bound. Has a couple of blank labels on the frontispiece verso but with no writing or inscriptions. Has spotting to the endpapers and sporadically through the text. Wonderfully decorated with ornate borders and intricate columns and motifs to the pages of text. Numerous full-page wood-engravings. Grey and gilt floral endpapers. All edges are shiny gilt.

Dark-red cloth over boards have beautiful decoration to the front and spine, blind-stamping to the back, and bevelled edges. Has rubbing to the cloth on the corners to reveal boards at the tips. Rubbing also to the cloth on the spine head where the colours have faded. Otherwise the decoration has remained very good, with just the odd faint mark and scuff. A striking book.

H 26.5 cm x W 23 cm, 540 pages, 2.7 kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre : 1883 Large New Testament Deluxe Victorian ...
Éditeur : Longmans, Green and Co., London
Date d'édition : 1883
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Assez bon