Accession number
PML 152496
Creator
Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
Published
London : William Smith ; MDCCCXLV, [i.e. 1845].
Credit line
Bequest; Julia P. Wightman; 1994.
Notes
Large paper copy.
Added t.p., illustrated in color.
Spine title: Illustrations of Froissart. British Museum.
T.p. in red and black text.
"London: Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars."--T.p. verso.
Originally part of a 2 volume, uniformly bound set, no longer held, (Illuminated illustrations of Froissart. Selected from the ms. in the Bibliothèque Royale, Paris, ...London 1845) ; per an A.L.S. by Bernard Quaritch, orig. laid in with [vol. 1], dated July I. 1875, stated that this is a "picked copy, probably unique, of Smith's First Issue, in 4to." (JPW card/MT.-1948).
Added t.p., illustrated in color.
Spine title: Illustrations of Froissart. British Museum.
T.p. in red and black text.
"London: Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars."--T.p. verso.
Originally part of a 2 volume, uniformly bound set, no longer held, (Illuminated illustrations of Froissart. Selected from the ms. in the Bibliothèque Royale, Paris, ...London 1845) ; per an A.L.S. by Bernard Quaritch, orig. laid in with [vol. 1], dated July I. 1875, stated that this is a "picked copy, probably unique, of Smith's First Issue, in 4to." (JPW card/MT.-1948).
Description
vi, 70 p., [36] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 32 x 26 cm (4to.)
Provenance
Bookplate of W. Harry Rylands ; from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
full morocco binding, gold tooled dentelle edge around boards, five double bands on spine and heavily tooled.
Classification
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