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Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis.
Wood, Anthony à.

Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1674. 2 vols in 1, large thick folio, with an engraved frontispiece, title vignette, 1 double-page map, 2 illustrations, 23 initials, 23 head-pieces, 9 large woodcut initials by George Edwards. Sumptuously bound by the “Spaniel binder” in English red morocco, the covers with elaborate panelled overall decoration built up from numerous small tools, black morocco onlays, rebacked by Middleton retaining the original backstrip and label. A large- and thick-paper copy magnificently bound. De luxe edition on large (and thick) paper especially used for this version. This magnificent example of Oxford printing was paid for by the great Dr. Fell of Christ Church, who also arranged for the translation into Latin of the text. The binding is suitably rich for such a work, and must be one of the largest “Spaniel” bindings in existence. It is unusual in that the figure of the spaniel is present 16 times on the covers in dotted outline whereas all other recorded examples have the outline solid. (Item ID: 5001)

$6,750.00