St. Dunstan illuminated editions. 1900-1919.

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St. Dunstan illuminated editions. 1900-1919.

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Collection of material relating to the St. Dunstan series of books with illuminations designed by Ross Turner, printed by the University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and published by George D. Sproul, London. Turner's original illuminations on vellum included are: Dickens' Pickwick papers (p. 85-86, with flower illuminations); The complete works of William Shakespeare (colophon, signed by Turner, Love's labour's lost title page, p. [iv]-vi, 9-10); a large illumination of an altar scene, mounted, with the letter "T"; Tennyson's Holy Grail (25 bifolia) with one illumination. Also included but without illumination: the pt. 2 title page of Shakespeare's Sonnets, from the Complete works; 14 copies of a brief text from Dickens' Pickwick papers. Additional material: two copies of the St. Dunstan series publisher's prospectus; five illuminated initials on vellum, cut from an Italian Renaissance choir book; four chromolithographs of British Museum illuminated mss.; a ms. list of titles; cover of the University Press' The printing art, v. 34, no. 3. (Nov. 1919).

1 case (19 pieces) ; 36 cm.

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Turner, Ross, 1847-1915

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Watercolorist, painter, illustrator; Salem, Mass. From the description of Ross Turner letters, 1884-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122595031 ...

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.)

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This special limited issue of The triumphs of Francesco Petrarch, Florentine poet laureate / translated by Henry Boyd with an introduction by Doctor Guido Biagi, was published in 1906 in the United States by Little, Brown and Company, and in London by John Murray. It was printed at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass. from a Humanistic type designed by William Dana Orcutt (1870-1953). The type was developed especially for this series, the "Humanistic series." The type was hand-cut in steel at ...

George D. Sproul (Firm)

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