and other marginalia in imitation of late-medieval books of hours
(on behalf of the thirteen English-speaking colonies in North America) put their seals and signatures to an epoch-making document
A beautiful example of arts & crafts illustration and printing
Folds of outer edges of the manuscript pages bound in have led to splitting (though still intact)
each page framed in ink and filled with a combination of hand-lettered text and miniature watercolor panels
[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son | Shakespeare Head Press] The History of the Church of Englande E-List 37 and other marginalia in imitationBede, Venerable; Stapleton, Thomas (translator). The History of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford upon Avon and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, Broad Street Oxford, 1930. Limited to 475 copies, of which 450 were for sale. Printed on handmade paper. Bound in full dark brown crushed morocco by Riviere & Son with spine band tooling in blind extending onto the