Title page – ‘The Preacher,’ preliminary leaf – ‘Illuminated by Owen Jones,’ 32 pages with decorations and initials by Owen Jones, printed in colours and gold. Bound in ‘carved’ wooden boards, leather spine, all edges gilt.
The spine is split and the boards are detached, all the leaves are loose, some insect scarring on the title page, water stains at the bottom corners of several leaves and light foxing throughout.
Owen Jones (15 February 1809 – 19 April 1874), English architect and design theorist.
The text reproduces the Book of Ecclesiastes, chapters 1 – 12, from the King James Bible of 1611.
Quayle (Eric) The Collector’s Book of Books (1971), page 111, ‘The London firm of Remnant & Edmonds specialised in unusual bindings. Books from their bindery appeared with sides in decorated vellum, velvet, art-silk inlaid with gold, porcelain, tortoiseshell, flock, coloured paper and brightly-stained roan. Their pièce de résistance was The Preacher, 1849, by Owen Jones. They invented a method whereby they were able accurately to imitate carved wood in almost Grindling Gibbons fashion. The pattern was burnt into the wood under considerable pressure, but few copies have managed to survive to the present day.’
- Binding Condition: Fair
- Overall Condition: Poor
- Size: 4to (290 x 190 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021 794 0600
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- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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