[Rarebooks] FS: Important 1833 Pickering: Shaw's "Illuminated Ornaments"

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Shaw, Henry and Frederic Madden. ILLUMINATED ORNAMENTS Selected from 
Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth Centuries. Drawn 
and Engraved by Henry Shaw, F.S.A. with Descriptions by Sir Frederic 
Madden... London: William Pickering. 1833. Lg. 4to. (2),16pp. Plus 59 finely 
hand-colored engraved plates (1 double-page), with descriptive text. Hand-colored added 
engraved title (lightly soiled with a few small chips in bottom blank 
margin). Orig. boards, modern brown morocco spine, gilt.     $1,000.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
Copies were published colored and uncolored (5 guineas uncolored, 10 for 
colored). See Keynes, WILLIAM PICKERING p. 89.

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