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5 parts bound in 1 volume, half-leather and boards, gilt spine-titles ,portfolio style flaps at front, folio, 45 cm, 150 facsimile plates with accompanying text. Originally published in five yearly issues of thirty facsimiles, 1895-1899. Each of the 150 full page reproductions of autograph manuscripts is briefly described and identified with the collection and callnumber for it, and a full transcription provided. The facsimile plates are attractively printed on sepia backgrounds. The plates are divided into two classes: (1) those of historical interest, comprising "eighty-five letters and documents written, or in a few cases merely signed, by English kings and queens, statesmen, soldiers and sailors, ecclesiastics and celebrities in general, from Henry V. down to [about 1900]. For a supplement, similar autographs are given of six of the greatest of continental monarchs, namely, the Emperor Charles V., Philip II of Spain, Henry IV and Louis XIV of France, Frederic the Great, and Napoleon Bonaparte" ; and (2) autographs of "English poets and prose writers, philosophers and others" comprising 53 examples from Spenser to Tennyson, supplemented by six foreign specimens: Michael Angelo; Albert Durer, Erasmus; Luther; Voltaire and Rousseau. Each plate is preceded by a textual commentary and often transcription. Library number on spine and label on front pastedown endpaper, covers worn with leather scuffed and rubbed and powdering, lacking the lower portfolio flap, contents Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-30956
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Title: Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, Literary ...
Publisher: Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition, 1899
Publication Date: 1899
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
