BOOK
Aucassin and Nicolete / Done into English by Andrew Lang.
- Date
- 1887
- By
- Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Jacomb Hood, G. P. (George Percy), 1857-1929, Nutt, David, Turnbull, Alexander, 1868-1918, Chiswick Press, C. Whittingham and Co, Zaehnsdorf (Firm)
- Notes
Etched frontispiece by G.P. Jacob Hood.
"Chiswick Press"--Colophon.
"Five hundred and fifty copies (of which 500 only for sale) of this edition are printed. The whole being on Japanese paper. Charles Whittingham & Co."--P. [4], 1st set.
With a half title.
Title page printed in red and black, within pictorial engraved border. Engraved head and tailpieces, some headings in red. Printer's device of the Chiswick Press below colophon, possible printer's device of David Nutt.
upper cover Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand,.
Translated into English from Old French.
Binding: green crushed morocco, upper and lower covers tooled in gold to a rambling rose design within a single outer fillet, central armorial device of Alexander H. Turnbull, spine gold tooled with rambling rose design, gold tooled edges and decorated turn-ins with rose leaf design, marbled endpapers, top text edge gilt. Upper pastedown signed: Bound by Zaehnsdorf; gold binder's stamp on lower pastedown. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Alex H Turnbull. Acc. 130651.
Digital image available: upper cover, Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.
- Source URL
- upper cover https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2494994
- Related to
- Digital Collection = Kohinga Matihiko 81268192800002836 Alma Collection
- Other Titles
- Aucassin et Nicolette. English; Aucassin & Nicolete
- Publisher
- London : Published by David Nutt ..., 1887.
- Format
- [6], xx, 70, [4] p. (pages [2-3], [5], 1st set, [2], [4], 2nd set, and [2-3], last set, are blank), [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 23 cm.
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