Accession number
PML 195730
Uniform title
Bible. Psalms. English.
Published
[London? : s.n. ca. 1890]
Description
[78] p. ; 27 cm
Notes
Volume contains 39 leaves (i.e. 78 unnumbered pages of printed text), being signatures 2R8 2S-2X⁸ 2Y1-6, removed from a copy of an unidentified edition of the Bible.
Caption title from extracted section of text.
Caption title from extracted section of text.
Binding
Full white vellum with two leather ties; front cover painted in gouache and gilt by Sir Edward Burne-Jones with a scene of King David playing a lyre next to a winged angel in a panel, with a caption at head and foot of the design reading, "Liber psalmoru[
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on front flyleaf in an unidentified hand, "This book was painted by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bt. & given to his friend H.M. Gaskell."
Provenance
Helen Mary Gaskell; sold at: Sotheby's London, 23 Mar. 1981 and Sotheby's London, 7 Dec. 2006, lot 215; purchased from George Bayntun, 2011.
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