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Lyra Germanica: Hymns for The Sundays & Chief Festivals of The Christian Year. Translated from The German… With Illustrations by and Engraved under the Superintendence of John Leighton, F.S.A.
Winkworth, Catherine (Trans.) · London
- Author
- Winkworth, Catherine (Trans.)
- Date
- 1861
- Place
- London
- Publisher
- Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(6.5" x 8.875") 272 pp. Full brown cloth with all over gilt decoration framing an ovoid red and gilt with gilt lettering framing gilt title and vignette (see pic) to both beveled boards. Spine similarly decorated in gilt with title towards head. All edges gilt, light blue endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, board edges bumped, head and foot of spine frayed, with loss. Prior owner's name neatly in ink to first free endpaper, gutter split after first free endpaper, holding firm. Textblock shaken. Illustrated with an engraved half-title page, an engraved frontispiece and title page. An uncounted amount of in-text engravings. The engravings in this volume are executed by T. Bolton, J. Cooper, G. & E. Dalziel, G. De Wilde, W. Green, H. Harrai, H. Leighton, M. Murden, G. Pearson, and J. Swain, from designs by E. Armitage, J. Flaxman, M. Lawless, C. Keene, S. Marks and J. Leighton according to the text before the preface. Except for the spine damage, a beautiful book.
- Category
- Religion & Theology
- Record
- S.I.8030
8vo.(6.5" x 8.875") 272 pp. Full brown cloth with all over gilt decoration framing an ovoid red and gilt with gilt lettering framing gilt title and vignette (see pic) to both beveled boards. Spine similarly decorated in gilt with title towards head. All edges gilt, light blue endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, board edges bumped, head and foot of spine frayed, with loss. Prior owner's name neatly in ink to first free endpaper, gutter split after first free endpaper, holding firm. Textblock shaken. Illustrated with an engraved half-title page, an engraved frontispiece and title page. An uncounted amount of in-text engravings. The engravings in this volume are executed by T. Bolton, J. Cooper, G. & E. Dalziel, G. De Wilde, W. Green, H. Harrai, H. Leighton, M. Murden, G. Pearson, and J. Swain, from designs by E. Armitage, J. Flaxman, M. Lawless, C. Keene, S. Marks and J. Leighton according to the text before the preface. Except for the spine damage, a beautiful book.
Condition
Good
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