Beschreibung:

RIVIERE & SON, binders , ALBERTO SANGORSKI, illuminator , ROBERT BROWNING "Love among the Ruins and other poems." ["How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix", "Prospice" and "The Guardian Angel"]. (Colophon: London 1912). Small folio, 278 x 193 x 25mm. (10 15/16 x 7 5/8 x 1in.), light blue crushed levant morocco, covers with double border of onlaid black morocco enclosing a broad panel of continuous strapwork ornament against a criblé gold ground; large central rectangular panel, framed in onlaid maroon morocco, containing an intricate ornamental panel with lyre-shaped corners incorporating a large central circular arabesque in onlaid purple morocco with criblé gold ground; set against a dense background border of leafy flowering tendrils in onlaid brown, green, red and yellow morocco and with a similar circular wreath as centerpiece; spine in six compartments with five raised and gilt dotted bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, climbing plant ornament through the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet; doublures of fawn morocco, onlaid with red, dark blue, light blue, dark green, royal blue, turquoise, purple and white morocco, comprising a central flower ornament within arabesque frame against an overall linear background within a leaf border and scrollwork outer border against a criblé gold ground; free endpages of fawn morocco with onlaid morocco panels of black, red, purple and brown, g.e., stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "Bound by Riviere & Son", trifling wear to corners and a raised band, original green morocco velvet and satin-lined box with hinged lid (box worn) . ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 25 leaves (i.e. written or decorated on 45 pages, including colophon), plus 3 blank flyleaves at front and 3 at back, written in a fine upright Roman cursive script in black with first lines and last lines in red, three pages comprising the general title and two of the three section titles (one for each poem) written in gold, the first section title in gold and colors; 13 FULL-PAGE AND SMALLER MINIATURES (including historiated initials) illustrating the poems, 5 of them signed by Alberto Sangorski with his monogram and variously dated between 1910 and 1912, 30 ILLUMINATED INITIALS incorporating fine brushwork borders in blues, reds, greens, to various ornate and stylized floral or fruit designs in fourteenth-century style. Colophon statement: "This manuscript...was designed, written out, and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski for Messrs. Robert Riviere & Son...This manuscript will not be duplicated. London 1912. This manuscript was executed by me [signed:] Alberto Sangorski." Provenance : Phoebe A.D. Boyle, Brooklyn, New York (sale, Anderson, 19 November 1923, lot 51).