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Printed Books, Manuscripts and Artwork
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Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP ![]()
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Binding.- Missale Romanum, printed in red and black, engraved vignette title and full-page illustrations, woodcut music, cotton tabs to fore-edge, a few marginal tears and repairs, some marginal damp-staining towards end, rather browned, handsome contemporary red morocco with gilt Royal Arms of Portugal, richly gilt covers with central arms, set on a background of intersecting lines with stars in each compartment, all within large scrolling foliage border, spine in compartments, richly tooled in gilt with foliage decorations and central heart motifs, remains of clasps, gilt gauffered edges, corners worn and bumped, a couple of nicks to head of spine, rubbed, some scratches to covers, folio, Antwerp, ex Architypographia Plantiniana, 1754; sold as a binding and not subject to return.View Bloomsbury Auctions next auction.Similar lots up for auction |




