Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke F. S. A. and Preserved At Armitage Bridge House Near Huddersfield.
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
First edition, one of 100 copies, with six copies of large paper. Illus. with frontispiece portrait of Brooke, title-page vignettes, a ground plan of the house, a bookplate, 17 facsimile reproductions from manuscripts. Printed on fine paper by Chiswick Press, for private circulation only. vi, 318; [iv], 319-759,[ 5] pp. 2. Original art vellum paper over boards, printed in blue, uncut. Spines toned. See The Book Collector, Spring 1958, on the history of the Pillone library. De Ricci, pg 167-68.
Item #262502
An important library containing 170 volumes with fore-edge painting by Vecellio, from the famous Pillone library which are listed at pp.662-680 of Volume II, "Collected at the close of the sixteenth century by Dr. Odorico Pillone of Casteldardo, and ornamented on the sides and edges with paintings...now preserved in an ebony bookcase..."
With ALS presenting this copy.
