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DOMESDAY BOOK – ‘Library’ edition
Great Domesday. Alecto Historical Editions 1988-1992. Folio (43 cm). 6 boxes: colour facsimile 382ff + 30ff additions. Facsimile on specially made paper, in 53 separate gatherings, 6 cloth folders (2 boxes); – Translation: 34 fascicules (in 36) & 2 of notes. Wrappers, 6 cloth folders (2 boxes); – Maps: folding key-map + 28 large folding county maps (1 box); – Indexes: Index of modern names, and 30 county parts; wrapppers (1 box). Uniform brown cloth, gilt-lettered; VG.
£750.00
BENSON, Thomas Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum, lexico Gul. Somneri magna parte auctius. Oxford, e Theatro Sheldoniano 1701. (21.5x14cm). [192]pp, double column. Engr extra title; engr vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre on printed title. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, covers blind-stamped; sl worn & scuffed, joints cracked. Margins sl browned; ink ownership inscrs of William Clark, 1814/15, on e-ps, & of C J Ridley, 1818 on pastedown. A good copy of the compact revised edition of Somner’s 1659 Dictionarium, produced at the instigation of Edward Thwaites. [Alston III 9; Greenfield & Robinson 57]. £400.00
KOEHLER, Wilhelm
Die Karolingischen Miniaturen: Tafeln (only): I: Die Schüle von Tours; – II: Die Hofschule Karls des Grossen; – III: Die Gruppe des Wiener Krönungs-Evangeliar;: Metzer Handschriften; – IV: Die Hofschule Kaiser Lothars; Einzelhandschriften aus Lotharingien. Berlin, Deutscher Verein für Kunstwiss 1930; 1958; 1960; 1971. LgeFolio (49x38cm). 432 pls, loose as issued in 4 portfolios. Dec linen, rubbed, v.I worn, 1 flap detached. Without the accompanying smaller-format text volumes. 2 further volumes (4 portfolios) were edited by Florentine Mütherich, up to 1999.
£700.00
SHAKESPEARE, William; intr Charlton Hinman, new intr Peter W M Blayney.
The Norton facsimile. The First Folio of Shakespeare, based on Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection. Second edition. NY, Norton 1966; 2nd edn 1996. Folio (34cm). xxxvii, 928pp, incl 923pp facsimile. No 719 of 1000 copies of the Folio Society issue, in black half morocco, decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered & ruled, t.e.g., marbled boards, silk marker; in gilt-lettered slip-case, a little bumped
£200.00