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[SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders] – SPENSER, Edmund (c.1552-1599). Epithalamion and Amoretti. London: John & E. Bumpus, 1903.
A deluxe edition, printed on vellum and in a magnificent jeweled binding, likely one of the very first jeweled bindings designed by George Sutcliffe and executed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. No 5 of only 14 copies, the limitation amended in manuscript from 12 to 14. The binding on the present copy is very similar to that on the Doheny-Chevalier copy (copy no. 7 of 14), which sold in our rooms on 9 November 1990 as lot 101, and was identified by Stanley Bray in the foreword to that catalogue as "almost certainly the first" Sangorski & Sutcliffe jeweled binding, executed in 1905 for Bumpus Ltd and signed with Bumpus' stamp.
Octavo (245 x 155mm). Engraved portrait, head- and tail-pieces, and initials. Contemporary jeweled binding for Bumpus of Oxford, unsigned, of full green morocco; the upper cover with a wide border and central panel both of red morocco richly covered in gilt dots, center onlays of red and cream morocco in the form of a Tudor rose decorated with five pearls, the whole cover with a profusion of scrolling vines and flowers in gilt, with red, cream and apple green morocco onlays, lower cover, spine and turn-ins all gilt with onlays of red and cream flowers, chestnut brown leather doublures with fine gilt tooling, top edge gilt, "Bumpus Ltd" stamp on upper turn-in (slight wear at head of lower joint); green morocco case lined with silk and velvet (scuffs to case).
A deluxe edition, printed on vellum and in a magnificent jeweled binding, likely one of the very first jeweled bindings designed by George Sutcliffe and executed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. No 5 of only 14 copies, the limitation amended in manuscript from 12 to 14. The binding on the present copy is very similar to that on the Doheny-Chevalier copy (copy no. 7 of 14), which sold in our rooms on 9 November 1990 as lot 101, and was identified by Stanley Bray in the foreword to that catalogue as "almost certainly the first" Sangorski & Sutcliffe jeweled binding, executed in 1905 for Bumpus Ltd and signed with Bumpus' stamp.
Octavo (245 x 155mm). Engraved portrait, head- and tail-pieces, and initials. Contemporary jeweled binding for Bumpus of Oxford, unsigned, of full green morocco; the upper cover with a wide border and central panel both of red morocco richly covered in gilt dots, center onlays of red and cream morocco in the form of a Tudor rose decorated with five pearls, the whole cover with a profusion of scrolling vines and flowers in gilt, with red, cream and apple green morocco onlays, lower cover, spine and turn-ins all gilt with onlays of red and cream flowers, chestnut brown leather doublures with fine gilt tooling, top edge gilt, "Bumpus Ltd" stamp on upper turn-in (slight wear at head of lower joint); green morocco case lined with silk and velvet (scuffs to case).