[Rarebooks] A wonderful example of vellum printing

[Edward Ripley-Duggan]

We offer the following.

(SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS). Bede, the Venerable Saint. [Thomas 
Stapleton--translator]. The history of the church of Englande. Oxford 
: Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, Broad 
Street, Oxford, 1930. One of ten copies on pure vellum (with 475 
copies on paper, in addition). 30 cm., oak boards from beams at 
Brasenose College, pigskin spine. xx, 479 pp. , the map at p. 452. 
Printed throughout in red and black. As is often the case with this 
version of the book, the joints show some separation, though the book 
is solid. Housed in a custom clamshell case.

A superb example of vellum printing, in the best Shakespeare Head 
Press manner. Newdigate's attention to detail was, as always, 
impeccable. This is a book on a par with the Froissart, Spenser, and Chaucer.

$6000.00

If interested, please e-mail (if we don't respond, please call, as we 
have had several orders disappear into the aether over the past year).

845 657 7057

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