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Voragine, Jacobus de
Estimate
10,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- Legenda aurea; that is to say in English, The Golden Legend. London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1527
- paper, ink, leather
Folio (11 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 283 x 193 mm). Black letter, two columns, woodcuts, woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device (McKerrow 49, 50) at the end; a few leaves stained, some of the woodcuts artlessly heightened with purple wash, leaf A1 washed. Nineteenth-century diced calf gilt, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, yellow edges; skillfully rebacked. Orange levant pull-off case gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, for J. W. Robinson Co.
Provenance
Thomas Antrobus (his inscription; 24 August 1598) — William Maskell (signature and bookplate) — William Simonds Higgs (armorial bookplate) — Henry Huth and his son Alfred Henry Huth (red morocco ticket gilt; Sotheby's London 8-11 July 1919, lot 7833) — G. D. Smith — M. E. G. (initials on pull-off case) — H. Bradley Martin (Sotheby's New York, 1 May 1990, lot 3296)
Literature
STC 24880
Catalogue Note
The Huth-Martin Copy.