Love Ballads of the XVIth Century
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Pictures and comment courtesy of Paul Jackson
Love Ballads of the XVIth Century
1897
This book measures 8 1/2" x 5" and has 120 pages. The text
body is Antiqua Old Style with the preface set in Monotype Series #16. The book
was printed in two colors on Ruisdael paper with a cloth spine and paper over
boards. The press run numbers are unknown but forty copies were specially hand
illuminated. Many of the books have some, if not all, initial letters illuminated.
This book was advertised in the July 1897 Philistine. Bound in antique
boards the selling price was $2.00. This book is listed in the 1899 catalog and sold for $2.00