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CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. NEW SERIES.
3 volumes.
First editions. A catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts from the Arundel and Burney collections in the British Museum. Antiquary Thomas, Earl of Arundel (1592-1646), collected more than 500 manuscript volumes, many of which relate to English History. He was an early supporter of Inigo Jones and friend of Robert Cotton. The collection of Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) was acquired by the British Museum in 1818 for 13,500 Pounds. His collection contains approximately 520 manuscripts, many of which are early copies of Greek and Latin classics. Elaborately illustrated with hand-colored lithographs printed by J. Netherclift. The third volume provides an extensive index to the first two. Ink inscription in first volume. Edges of all three volumes chipped and torn.
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> BIBLIOGRAPHY, NINETEENTH CENTURY
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> ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
> ARUNDEL, THOMAS
> BURNEY, CHARLES
> BRITISH MUSEUM
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ENDEAVOURS & EXPERIMENTS, JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT'S ESSAYS I...
by Wright, Christopher Buckland
First edition, limited to 300 copies of which this is one of the 60 special copies bound thus and containing an extra print of Café Dansant No.2 in a separate portfolio and two extra tipped-in full color prints in the text. Fourth in a series of books printed by the Fleece Press displaying the remaining woodcut blocks of John Buckland Wright who was found dead in his studio in 1954. This volume consists of those blocks not previously published, in particular, two color wood engravings that Wright was experimenting with shortly before he died. Also included are prints from blocks for Christmas cards, publishers' marks and some commercial pieces. Among Wright's publisher marks are several intended for Christopher Sandford's Golden Cockerel Press. A bibliography of published wood engravings in other works, unfinished wood engravings and uncut blocks follows the descriptions. This volume truly allows the reader to see the development of Wright's style. Plates are printed by J.W. Northend Fine Print in Sheffield. The paper used is Magnani avorio Biblos. Bound by Smith Settle, Otley. Seventeen color plates tipped-in and thirty-six black-and-white block illustrations.
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