Accession number
PML 129114
Creator
Herbert, George, 1593-1633.
Published
London : Printed from the manuscript in the Bodleian Library by the Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Credit line
Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Dorothy, Viscountess Weir; 2002.
Notes
Title within decorative border.
"Of this edition, which has been set at the Nonesuch Press in the types of Janson, fifteen hundred copies have been printed by the Chiswick Press for sale in England and America. This is number ... F.M. finx. et fec."--Colophon.
Edited by Francis Meynell.
Printed by the Chiswick Press on Van Gelder paper. Pages rubricated by lithography in the manner of pen ruling. Frontispiece portrait of Herbert engraved by C. Sigrist after R. White and printed from the copper. (Cf. Dreyfus)
PML copy: library has no. 1373.
Presentation copy inscribed to "Charles Ryskamp from Geoffrey Keynes" with 2 pp. notecard letter laid in from Geoffrey Keynes to Charles Ryskamp, dated 17 March 1954.
"Of this edition, which has been set at the Nonesuch Press in the types of Janson, fifteen hundred copies have been printed by the Chiswick Press for sale in England and America. This is number ... F.M. finx. et fec."--Colophon.
Edited by Francis Meynell.
Printed by the Chiswick Press on Van Gelder paper. Pages rubricated by lithography in the manner of pen ruling. Frontispiece portrait of Herbert engraved by C. Sigrist after R. White and printed from the copper. (Cf. Dreyfus)
PML copy: library has no. 1373.
Presentation copy inscribed to "Charles Ryskamp from Geoffrey Keynes" with 2 pp. notecard letter laid in from Geoffrey Keynes to Charles Ryskamp, dated 17 March 1954.
Description
x, 213 p. : front. ; 26 cm.
Provenance
Charles Ryskamp.
Binding
grey/tan and red cloth hand designed by Edmund Hunter, hand woven with Nonesuch device and with title "The temple" down spine; fore-edge trimmed; top edge gilt 'on the rough'.
Classification
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