Rare Book
A highly decorative edition - the account of the birth and boyhood of Christ by Armida Colt (who, with her husband, were the two Colts of the Two Horse Press), illustrated with miniatures and elaborate borders featuring lute-players, badgers, angels, astrolabes, bears practicing archery and a spouting whale, all designed by Michael Renton.
1a/50 COPIES, printed on dampened Barcham Green's 'Bodleian Repairing' paper by George Mackley, calligraphic text throughout, each page with decorated borders, six miniatures adapted from a 15th-century Dutch Passionale, pen annotation supplying author's identity at colophon, pp. 28, tall 8vo, crimson morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (signed), gilt-lettered spine with two raised bands, marbled endpapers, slipcase with a few small marks, near fine
Includes delivery to the United States
1 copy available online - Usually dispatched within two working days
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