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1902228743<p>First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait over 20 b/w illustrations from drawing by Constance Parris. 2 page introductory essay by Amy Dudley. Original stiff black printed wrappers. Very good. 130 pages. Scarce. No signatures or bookplates. Includes chapters on Father Serra land titles Mormons etc. Howes C-1; Rocq #7052; Cowan p. 91.</p> Times-Index Press paperback
05903London: Printed for William Sams 1823. Twenty-Four Plates Depicting a Medieval Tournament <br /> <br /> ROWLANDSON Thomas illustrator attributed to. The Tournament; or Days of Chivalry. With twenty-four engravings. London: Printed for William Sams 1823. <br /> <br /> First edition. Octavo 8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 226 x 146 mm. 2 1-59 pp. Twenty-four unsigned hand-colored aquatint proof plates on India Paper mounted all with imprint "London Pub. by W. Sams 1822." <br /> <br /> Bound by Henderson & Bisset Edinburgh ca 1890 in three quarter red morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spine with five raised bands decoratively toole and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate "Omnia Vincit Veritas" truth conquers all things front paste-down. A fine example.<br /> <br /> Beautiful hand-colored plates accompanied by a long poem on the adventures of a medieval knight. An anonymous verse work on a medieval jousting tournament and the colorful events surrounding it reflecting the popularity of the subject in the 19th century as evinced by the various works by Meyrick and the publication in 1839 of the Eglington Tournament.<br /> <br /> "The National Library of Scotland has: 'A specimen book of binders' tools prepared for use in the firm of Henderson & Bisset of Edinburgh about 1860.' Stated to be bookbinders to the Queen from 1839 to 1892." British Museum.<br /> <br /> Although OCLC records attribute Thomas Rowlandson as the illustrator his name does not appear anywhere in the book itself. <br /> <br /> Not in Abbey or Tooley. London: Printed for William Sams, 1823 unknown
