ALBERTO SANGORSKI, calligrapher and illuminator. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. MOORE, THOMAS. "Paradise and the Peri" [London 1909]. 4to, 269 x 210 x 16mm. (10 9/16 x 8 1/4 x 58in.), A JEWELLED BINDING WITH NINE STONES ON AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, royal blue levant morocco, covers with five gilt fillets and a gilt dotted border enclosing an inner border of gilt stippled dentelle, upper cover with a large shaped oval medallion of gilt stippled dentelle with onlaid red morocco circlets, around a square device of elaborately interwoven brown and green onlaid calf with large knotwork corners, the center set with a single moonstone flanked by four diamonds and four rubies, all on a densely stippled gilt ground, lower cover with plain center; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a gilt stippled panel with red onlay in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt ruled and gilt dotted, doublures and free endpages of ivory watered silk, g.e., stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London", some wear to upper joint, spine bands slightly rubbed, folding cloth box. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 16 leaves plus 3 blank vellum fly-leaves at front and one at end, 2 additional paper fly-leaves (28 decorated pages plus colophon page), written in an upright roman script in black with some initial words or letters in red, full-page frontispiece of a pair of angels amidst clouds against a gold, red, blue and mauve tiled background, above a landscape; the facing title-page with the title in red, incorporating a very large historiated initial P with a full page-border and a vignette of three angels at the foot; 6 other vignettes and large borders; a total of 19 gold initials with backgrounds and borders of various colors, some with extravagant foliage and ornamental decoration, other initials in red and blue. Colophon statement: "This manuscript, the poem of 'Paradise and the Peri' by Thomas Moore was designed, written out, and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski, London. anno domini nineteen hundred and nine." (Maxwell)
ALBERTO SANGORSKI, calligrapher and illuminator. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. MOORE, THOMAS. "Paradise and the Peri" [London 1909]. 4to, 269 x 210 x 16mm. (10 9/16 x 8 1/4 x 58in.), A JEWELLED BINDING WITH NINE STONES ON AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, royal blue levant morocco, covers with five gilt fillets and a gilt dotted border enclosing an inner border of gilt stippled dentelle, upper cover with a large shaped oval medallion of gilt stippled dentelle with onlaid red morocco circlets, around a square device of elaborately interwoven brown and green onlaid calf with large knotwork corners, the center set with a single moonstone flanked by four diamonds and four rubies, all on a densely stippled gilt ground, lower cover with plain center; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a gilt stippled panel with red onlay in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt ruled and gilt dotted, doublures and free endpages of ivory watered silk, g.e., stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London", some wear to upper joint, spine bands slightly rubbed, folding cloth box. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 16 leaves plus 3 blank vellum fly-leaves at front and one at end, 2 additional paper fly-leaves (28 decorated pages plus colophon page), written in an upright roman script in black with some initial words or letters in red, full-page frontispiece of a pair of angels amidst clouds against a gold, red, blue and mauve tiled background, above a landscape; the facing title-page with the title in red, incorporating a very large historiated initial P with a full page-border and a vignette of three angels at the foot; 6 other vignettes and large borders; a total of 19 gold initials with backgrounds and borders of various colors, some with extravagant foliage and ornamental decoration, other initials in red and blue. Colophon statement: "This manuscript, the poem of 'Paradise and the Peri' by Thomas Moore was designed, written out, and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski, London. anno domini nineteen hundred and nine." (Maxwell)
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