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Two bifolia from a manuscript of Canon Law, which discuss the Decretum of Gratian. Germany, c. 1300
CANON LAW
1 four-line and 3 two-line painted initials, paragraph marks in red.
Size of bifolia: 140 x 202mm. 35 lines in a small gothic hand, double columns. Like the beginning of the Decretum of Gratian, our text treats the different kinds of law. Thus our text discusses natural... [more]
Department: Continental Books, Illuminations & Manuscripts:
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selection of 240 items from the Macclesfield Library formerly at Shirburn
Castle near Watlington, Oxfordshire, mirrors the multiform interests
of the library, encompassing classical texts, works on the military
arts, a (very) few works of a scientific nature, works of more modern
literature and history, some collections of emblems, and some items
on the study of languages.
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In a new edition edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Houyhnhnm
Press 2010
The fruit of an astonishing feat of scholarship. Presented in a remarkable
new two volume edition, with note by Seamus Deane, foreword by Hans
Walter Gabler, introduction by David Greetham. Designed by Martino
Mardersteig and printed at Verona by Stamperia Valdonega, Houyhnhnm
Press's Finnegans Wake is published in two editions: a numbered,
limited edition of 150 copies at £750, and a standard
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is a group of 135 titles comprising over 1000 photo-books and magazines
spanning the rich history of this most challenging period of Japanese
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from the same period. We have published a fully illustrated catalogue
in a limited edition of 450 copies giving detailed bibliographical
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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little. Voltaire |
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Published previously only in a rare lithographic facsimile in 1831
this is the first scholarly publication of the modest, vellum-bound
notebook now known as the 'Roman Sketchbook' and catalogued at Chatsworth
House as 'Album 6'. The text has been fully reproduced in photographic
facsimile and accurately transcribed [more...]
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