Parables of Our Lord illustrated and illuminated
London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. 4to, chromolithograph title page and dedication, plus 13 stiff card leaves laminated to show 12 chromolithographs mounted as rectos with corresponding chromolithographs taken from the Brevario Grimani from St. Mark's Library, Venice mounted as versos, together with a chromolithograph frontispiece; original pictorial brown cloth by Burn and Co. with an all over theological design embossed in black and gilt, a circular pictorial pastedown of Christ central, spine similarly decorated in gilt and black, a.e.g.; very good and sound, the plates particularly fresh. The illustrations to the Parables are by H. R. McEniry, and the frontispiece by John Jellicoe. "The entire work is arranged and printed in colours by Cooper, Clay, and Co." Item #31627
Price: $750.00
