Catalogue of the choice and important library of printed books and illuminated manuscripts of the late Edwin Henry Lawrence, Esq. F.S.A. [ Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auction catalogue, sale date: 9-12 May 1892 ].

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Disbound from a collected volume (original wrappers - if any - not retained), top edge gilt, 8vo, 62, [1], 63-71 pp. 860 lots (plus addenda- 747A-747H) . The sale was advertised as "comprising many extremely rare Printed Books, an extraordinary Collection of magnificently Illuminated Manuscripts, and most im portant Autographs.Amongst the Printed Books are Blake's Songs of Innocence-Books of Common Prayer and Breeches Bible of 1607, a magnificent specimen of contemporary Embroidered Binding-Burnet s Own Times. 6 vols., Large Piper, tastefully illustrated-Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, First Edition-Charles I Workes, in 2 vols, folio, the copy formerly belonging to Charles II., in morocco, with his arms in gold on sides -Clarendon s History of the Rebellion. 3 vols. in 14, large paper, very tastefully illustrated -Coryate s Crudities, First Edition -Donne's Poems, Isaac Walton s copy, with his autograph-Queen Elizabeth s Prayer-Book and her Precationes Private, the excessively rare edition, printed in 1663-Enchiridion Sarisburiense, 1533-Goulds Birds of Great Britain-Grant s Graecae Linquae Specilegium. the dedication copy to W Cecil, Lord Burleigh-Heures a Lusaige de Rome, Three Editions, printed on vellum-Horae, printed on vellum-Manuale Sarisburiense, 1537-Melancthon's Loci Communes, with autograph sentences written by M Luther and P Melancthon-Missale Sarisburiense. printed in 1555- Missale Romanum, in magnificent Italian binding - Plauti Comaediae, Queen Elizabeth s copy-Primer of Henry VIII.-numerous rare Books of Songs. Among the Manuscripts may be mentioned Ovide Epistres, with 21 exquisitely beautiful Miniatures, presented to Anne of Britanny by Louis XII as a wedding gift The Horae described by Pettigrew as 'the most exquisite of all the illuminated works I have seen'. Horae ad Usum Romanum. executed at the expense of Maximilian I as a gift to his grandson. Charles V. (Lot 304). Several Latin Bibles-the excessively rare Breviarium Herefordense - Evangelia IV. Graece, written circa 1050-Hymnarium, containing probably the earliest setting of the English Service by Archbishop Cranmer-Precum Liber, written and illuminated by John Islip, Abbott of Westminster, for Henry VII.- Psalterium cum Cantices. &c. by an English Scribe-several very curious and important Scottish Documents." Quaritch bought numerous items at the sale - his Rough List No 126 (July 15th 1892) includes a section (items 1-63) drawn from the Lawrence Library. Disbound from a collected volume. Neatly priced in ink. With the addenda leaf. Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-58944

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