28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Jones (Owen, illustrator). The Book of Common Prayer ... Illuminated: and illustrated with Engravings from the Works of the Great Painters, 1st edition thus, London: John Murray, 1845. 8vo, original 'Relievo' binding by Edmonds and Remnants (ticket to rear pastedown), all edges gilt, 8 chromolithographic plates and divisional title-pages by Owen Jones including frontispiece (all in gold and colours), 4 wood-engraved plates, decorative borders, initials and text illustrations throughout (many in red and blue in the style of medieval manuscripts), front inner hinge split but held by cords, intermittent damp-staining to lower outer corners towards rear - Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, London: John Baskett, 1738. 8vo (184 x 110 mm), early-19th-century straight-grain purple morocco gilt (joints rubbed), signatures a4 A-2B8 2C4, with numerous engraved plates not mentioned in ESTC (portraits of English monarchs and biblical scenes), Psalms bound in at rear (London: printed by Alice Pearson, 1739, with advertisement leaf), occasional browning, a few headlines and signature-marks shaved - [Gauden, John]. Eikon basilike [graece]. The Pourtraicture of his Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, Hage [i.e. London]: Samuell Broun, 1649. 24mo (102 x 55 mm), contemporary panelled calf, 2 engraved plates, ownership inscription 'E libris Johannis Estoft 1691' to front free endpaper, related 18th- and 19th-century inscriptions to pastedown, endpaper and initial blank - and 7 others similar (qty: 10) ESTC T82209 (BCP, 1738 edition, six copies world-wide), N25673 (Psalms, 1739 edition, five copies world-wide), R33416 (Gauden: nine copies world-wide). No other copy of this edition of Eikon Basilike traced in commerce.
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021
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