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SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders, calligraphers and illuminators -- KEATS, John. "Isabella or the Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio." London, 1910.
SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders, calligraphers and illuminators -- KEATS, John. "Isabella or the Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio." London, 1910. 4 o (266 x 191 mm). ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 25 leaves (i.e. written or decorated on 45 pages, including colophon), plus 2 blank vellum leaves at front and 2 at rear, written in a semi-gothic script in black, with some initial letters or words in red. Title-page with MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF KEATS (initial-signed by Sangorski and dated 1910), surrounded by a full gilt-floral border in colors incorporating title in gold with large illuminated initial I against a gold ground; 2 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES WITHIN RICHLY GILT FLORAL BORDERS IN COLORS, 3 OTHER SMALLER MINIATURES INCORPORATED INTO DECORATIVE BORDERS (some initial-signed by Sangorski), 18 OTHER LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS IN COLORS WITH FULL OR PARTIAL BORDERS IN COLORS AND HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD, other smaller initials in red, blue or gold, most with penwork tracery and extensions. A JEWELLED BINDING WITH 176 SEMI-PRECIOUS JEWELS. Bound in crushed light blue levant morocco, covers with inlaid dark blue strapwork framing a broad panel border, the front cover with its border filled with an elaborate design of curling stylized leaves and flowers in inlaid green, brown, purple and red morocco gilt-tooled against an all-over gilt-dot ground, framing a large central arabesque-shaped recessed panel edged with the blue cover morocco on the bevel and framed with dark blue, green and brown inlaid morocco strapwork border incorporating hearts and 18 GARNETS, around a central double heart-shaped panel with 14 forget-me-nots, each comprised of 8 TURQUOISES WITH A GARNET at its center, title at center in raised gold letters SET WITH 64 TURQUOISES, above and below the title the panel contains inlaid red morocco bows of ribbon, above and below which TWO OPALS are set (one heart-shaped, the other oval), all against a densely gilt-dotted and leaf-tooled ground, on either side of the panel a jewelled forget-me-not is set with 8 TURQUOISES WITH A GARNET at its center, within smaller recessed arabesque panels with densely gilt-dotted and leaf-tooled ground; the back cover is similarly decorated with onlaid designs, though differing in coloring and arrangement, with a single recessed heart in the central panel, heavily gilded and containing an OPAL at the center, and 11 GARNETS around the outer edge; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated inlaid panel with central onlaid heart in red morocco surounded by floral decorations in red morocco onlays against a heavily gilded ground; board edges with single gilt fillet, broad turn-ins with a double-frame of inlaid black morocco strapwork enclosing a decorative gilt border design incorporating small red circles of inlaid morocco, cream levant doublures ornamented with a diaper pattern with an outer floral border and interlaced strapwork forming a heart at each corner, the free endpages of rose levant, matching the turn-in decoration with inlaid bands and small circles of dark green, edges gilt, stamp-signed on the front turn-in: "Bound by Sangorski & Stutcliffe, London" (slight rubbing to spine bands, small split to leather on lower joint near spine head); blue morocco silk-lined clamshell case. Provenance : Phoebe A.D. Boyle, Brooklyn, New York (sale, Anderson, 19 November 1923); M. & J. Moore (bookplate); Fred W. Allsopp (his sale, Parke-Bernet, part I, 4 December 1945, lot 162, Emil Offenbacher agent for Cornelius J. Hauck). Colophon statement: "This copy of Isabella by John Keats has been written out, illuminated, & bound by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe of London, for Gannon and Cassidy of New York. Registered design No. 579106." AN EXQUISITE JEWELLED BINDING FROM THE PHOEBE BOYLE COLLECTION.