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Elyot Thomas | The Image of Governaunce, 1549, contemporary calf, extensive contemporary marginalia
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December 11, 02:59 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Thomas Elyot
The Image of Governaunce compiled of the actes and sentences notable of the most noble Emperor Alexander Severus. London: Thomas Berthelet, 1549
Third edition, small 8vo (142 x 94 mm), gothic type, title-page within woodcut architectural border, extensively annotated in a contemporary hand, contemporary dark brown English calf, lozenge design stamped in blind to covers, vellum pastedowns comprised of thirteenth-century liturgical manuscript leaves with musical notation in red, blue, and black ink, annotations in first two gatherings partially washed, some slight marginal worming, rebacked and reinforced at hinges, recornered
A fascinating copy of this popular work of instruction for nobility, WITH EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT NOTES in margins and to terminal blank, the latter providing a biographical commentary on Alexander Severus.
PROVENANCE:
Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.: "collated & complete" note in pencil to verso of terminal blank; Kenneth Rapoport, sold Swann Galleries, New York, 5 May 2022, lot 87
LITERATURE:
STC 7666; ESTC S111496