The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : With Engravings on Wood from Designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo Di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Daniel De Volterra, and Others
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865.
Illustrated by Henry Shaw, A J Waudby et al. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #16253
Joints rubbed, light edgewear, light tone with random foxing, owner's label glued to flyleaf, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover. ; Embossed full leather binding with five compartment spine, gilt spine lettering, gilt decor on both covers, silk endpapers, and all edges gilt. Lavishly illustrated and decorated, with Initial letters and other decorations drawn and engraved by Henry Shaw, and drawings on the wood-blocks by Arthur John Waudby and one by William Bell Scott. Thomas Longman edited this beautifully illustrated edition of the New Testament, a highspot of mid-nineteenth-century British book design and illustration. ; xv, 540 pages.
Price: $499.95