(WARD, Adolphus William.) The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession.
First edition. Deluxe Limited Edition printed on Japanese paper, Number 53 of 250 copies. Folio (320 x 260 x 40 mm.), pp. [iv] v, [i], 254, [1] + plates with captioned tissue-guards outside the pagination. Half-title, with limitation page to verso in red and black, title-page printed in red and black with printers device, 46 full-page plates including a hand-coloured portrait frontispiece, elaborate chapter head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials, contents page to rear. Exquisitely bound by Bayntun Riviere in half morocco, spine gilt ruled and tooled, the sides in blue cloth, top edge gilt, other edges uneven, marbled endpapers. Housed in Publisher’s Slipcase and including additional duplicate loose plates in vellum wrapper. Printing and engraving by Manzi, Joyant & Co. at Asnieres-sur-Seine near Paris. Published by Goupil & Co. (Paris), 1903.
A fine copy of this impressive production, in the near fine Publisher’s Slipcase. The presence of the Publisher’s Slipcase and duplicate plates is exceptionally rare to encounter.
A study by Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, of Sophia Charlotte (1668-1705), Queen to Frederick I of Prussia and sister of George I of England.
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First edition. Deluxe Limited Edition printed on Japanese paper, Number 53 of 250 copies. Folio (320 x 260 x 40 mm.), pp. [iv] v, [i], 254, [1] + plates with captioned tissue-guards outside the pagination. Half-title, with limitation page to verso in red and black, title-page printed in red and black with printers device, 46 full-page plates including a hand-coloured portrait frontispiece, elaborate chapter head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials, contents page to rear. Exquisitely bound by Bayntun Riviere in half morocco, spine gilt ruled and tooled, the sides in blue cloth, top edge gilt, other edges uneven, marbled endpapers. Housed in Publisher’s Slipcase and including additional duplicate loose plates in vellum wrapper. Printing and engraving by Manzi, Joyant & Co. at Asnieres-sur-Seine near Paris. Published by Goupil & Co. (Paris), 1903.
A fine copy of this impressive production, in the near fine Publisher’s Slipcase. The presence of the Publisher’s Slipcase and duplicate plates is exceptionally rare to encounter.
A study by Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, of Sophia Charlotte (1668-1705), Queen to Frederick I of Prussia and sister of George I of England.
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
First edition. Deluxe Limited Edition printed on Japanese paper, Number 53 of 250 copies. Folio (320 x 260 x 40 mm.), pp. [iv] v, [i], 254, [1] + plates with captioned tissue-guards outside the pagination. Half-title, with limitation page to verso in red and black, title-page printed in red and black with printers device, 46 full-page plates including a hand-coloured portrait frontispiece, elaborate chapter head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials, contents page to rear. Exquisitely bound by Bayntun Riviere in half morocco, spine gilt ruled and tooled, the sides in blue cloth, top edge gilt, other edges uneven, marbled endpapers. Housed in Publisher’s Slipcase and including additional duplicate loose plates in vellum wrapper. Printing and engraving by Manzi, Joyant & Co. at Asnieres-sur-Seine near Paris. Published by Goupil & Co. (Paris), 1903.
A fine copy of this impressive production, in the near fine Publisher’s Slipcase. The presence of the Publisher’s Slipcase and duplicate plates is exceptionally rare to encounter.
A study by Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, of Sophia Charlotte (1668-1705), Queen to Frederick I of Prussia and sister of George I of England.
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.