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(LEIGHTON, JOHN - PUBLISHER'S BINDING). LYRA GERMANICA. The Christian Life. Translated from the German by Catherine Winkworth and Illustrated by John Leighton, E. Armitage & F. Madox Brown.
London: Longmans Green Reader & Dyer, 1868. 8vo, xvi, 254, (2)pp, frontispiece & hundreds of illustrations & ornaments. Orig. green cloth by Leighton, elaborately blocked in gilt with red cloth onlay. Barest wear to extremities, otherwise quite brilliant. ¶ First Edition of this beautiful German hymnology, gothically illustrated by Leighton, Armitage, Brown and engraved by the Dalziels, Leighton himself, and others. The spectacular binding is Leighton's creation as well. McLean, VPB, p.131. cf. Morris & Levin, The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, 49.
Offered for US$ 300.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 5891.