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One of 56 copies of The book of Thenseygnementes, bound by Cedric Chivers, with illustratioins by Garth Jones, in original hand-painted vellucant vellum 1902
One of 56 copies of The book of Thenseygnementes, bound by Cedric Chivers, with illustratioins by Garth Jones, in original hand-painted vellucant vellum 1902
One of 56 copies of The book of Thenseygnementes, bound by Cedric Chivers, with illustratioins by Garth Jones, in original hand-painted vellucant vellum 1902
One of 56 copies of The book of Thenseygnementes, bound by Cedric Chivers, with illustratioins by Garth Jones, in original hand-painted vellucant vellum 1902
One of 56 copies of The book of Thenseygnementes, bound by Cedric Chivers, with illustratioins by Garth Jones, in original hand-painted vellucant vellum 1902
One of 56 copies of The book of Thenseygnementes, bound by Cedric Chivers, with illustratioins by Garth Jones, in original hand-painted vellucant vellum 1902
One of 56 copies of The book of Thenseygnementes, bound by Cedric Chivers, with illustratioins by Garth Jones, in original hand-painted vellucant vellum 1902

Vellucent binding by Chivers


[CHIVERS BINDING]; LANDRY, Geoffroy de La Tour; RAWLINGS, Gertrude Burford (editor).

The Book of Thenseygnementes and techynge that the knyght of the towre made to his doughters by the chevalier Geoffroy de la Tour Landry.

London, George Newnes Ltd, 1902.

$4,118.00
$4,118.00

The Book of Thenseygnementes

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This was the title given by the English printer Caxton to his translation of a French book which was written in 1371–2 by the Chevalier Geoffroy de La Tour Landry, for the double purpose of teaching his infant daughters to read and instructing them in the manners and virtues proper to gentlewomen. This book contained 149 chapters, made up of stories and moral examples drawn from various sources, such as chronicles, legendary history, and the Bible, as well as from contemporary gossip and the author's own experiences.

Limited edition on hand-made paper, this numbered 39 or 56 printed, of which only 50 are for sale; 4to (230 x 190 mm); edited with notes and glossary by Rawlings, Preface by William Caxton, engraved title-page, frontispiece and five plates in two states, historiated chapter capitals printed in red, all by Garth Jones, the odd, minor spot to preliminary leaves, otherwise very clean and bright; contemporary hand-painted vellucent binding by Cedric Chivers, Bath, gilt-panelled, the spine and upper board outlined in gilt, hand-painted landscape illustrations, upper panel of Knight in armour against a castle landscape, with a riverlet of mother-of-pearl, this echoed on the spine, without the figure, gilt-panelled marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, brown blooming from glue reaction, fore-edge a little spotted, otherwise very good.

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One of 56 copies of The book of Thenseygnementes, bound by Cedric Chivers, with illustratioins by Garth Jones, in original hand-painted vellucant vellum 1902

The Book of Thenseygnementes

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