After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal
A new book on Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland – launched at our Bloomsbury shop
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![Playbill for a performance of Presumption! or The Fate of Frankenstein, the first theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley's famous novel [January 31st, 1840].](https://api.maggs.com/image/336fe329-150f-499f-8430-dd85aea6b98a/616x770.webp)
![[Lithographed Holy Qur'an.]](https://api.maggs.com/image/4a6ed2ac-7ed1-4e3a-a557-cb6304a5cee6/616x770.webp)
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![Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam salutis humanae per redemptorem nostrum Iesum Christum Dei & Marium filium instauratae... nunc primum è tenebris in lucem editae...
[Hamburg, G.L. Frobenius], 1604](https://api.maggs.com/image/1be39e4e-bf72-409e-b817-94b24ad9538a/616x770.webp)
ALTDORFER (Albrecht)
Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604.
ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK
£10,000
TASSO (Torquato)
La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.
"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION
£5,750
![Discours du roi, prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait l’ouverture des Etats-Généraux.
[Paris]: de l’imprimerie de Didot l’Aîné, [1789].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e7bb9291-9f08-48d0-a5f4-06f1fd900a71/616x770.webp)
[FRENCH REVOLUTION].
Discours du roi, prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait l’ouverture des Etats-Généraux. [Paris]: de l’imprimerie de Didot l’Aîné, [1789], 1789.
PRINTED ON SILK BY DIDOT
£9,500
GRAHAME (Kenneth), SHEPHARD (Ernest) & CHANDLER (Margaret) [Binder]
The Wind in the Willows, 1931.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST, MAGNIFICENTLY BOUND BY MARGARET CHANDLER
£12,000
DIPLOMA
Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.
A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT
£10,000
![Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem universalem... pertinent. Ut et in eandem quorundam interpretum scripti commentarij [by Giordano Bruno, H. Cornelius Agrippa ]... Accessit index, etc.
Strasbourg, Lazarus Zetzner,](https://api.maggs.com/image/8ad9dd90-b07f-4ed7-ba8c-0023c2dd4b63/616x770.webp)
LULL (Ramon)
Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.
WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS
£7,500
![Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin with rubrics in French and a prayer in Middle English, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[France, Rouen, c. 1440]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f8c1fcf1-55f3-44e3-b5fb-7c0c530ff244/616x770.webp)
BOOK OF HOURS
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin…
THE FITZ-RALPH HOURS
£75,000
