Search Results: Authors starting with I from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Northern France, ca. 1480. 164 x 111 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 3/8"). Single column, 17 lines in a gothic book hand. Rubrics in blue, many leaves with line fillers in pink and/or blue with gilt bezants and white tracery, each leaf with at least one (and often many) one- or two-line initials in burnished gold on blue and pink ground with white tracery, every side with a panel border consisting of colorful acanthus and different types of flowers on a ground that is either entirely painted gold, or with a pattern of painted gold and bare vellum. ◆A few leaves with light wrinkling or a hit of soiling or foxing, a couple of leaves with inoffensive marginal repairs, but IN VERY FINE CONDITION, EXTREMELY CLEAN AND BRIGHT. Featuring both burnished and painted gold in their decoration, and offering a multitude of border patterns to choose from, these are extremely attractive leaves that are all the more appealing for their fine condition..

Lugd[uni] Batavorum [Leyden]: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1629. First Elzevir Edition. 120 x 71 mm. (4 3/4 x 2 3/4"). Three volumes. Edited by Daniel Heinsius. VERY CHARMING 18TH CENTURY RED MOROCCO, GILT, covers with French fillet border, raised bands with gilt lettering, spine compartments with central floral sprig framed with curling brackets terminating in ivy leaves, spray of daisies on either side, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Title page of first volume with engraved ornate frame containing a tondo portrait of Ovid at head, woodcut printer's device, and decorative initials. A few leaves printed in red and black. Willems 317; Rahir 288; Dibdin II, 266-67; Brunet IV, 272 ("bonne édition"); Graesse V, 70. ◆Spine of first two volumes a bit sunned and very lightly rubbed, boards with trivial soiling and chafing, but the very prettily decorated unrestored bindings bright with gilt and still altogether pleasing. First volume with tiny hole to first leaf of text, volumes I and II… Read More