Palaeography. [Africa, Ethiopia]: Budge (E.A. Wallis, editor...

Hammer

£350

Palaeography. [Africa, Ethiopia]: Budge (E.A. Wallis, editor and translator), Lady Meux Manuscripts Nos. 2-5: The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Life of Hannâ (Saint Anne), and the Magical Prayers of Aneta Mîkâêl, copy no. 291/300, London: [Printed for private circulation by] W. Griggs, Chromo-lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen, 1900, red and black title-page, half-title, limitation leaf, 111 coloured plates of facsimile illuminated Ge'ez manuscript, with letterpress translation and commentary, occasional faint finger-soiling, original red morocco, ornately decorated and blocked in blind, gilt-lettered spine, worn and rubbed losses, bumped corners, starting to split in places, yet holding, marbled edges and endpapers, pastedown with withdrawn ex-library stock bookplates and labels, stamps or stickers, title-page affected by their discreet stamp, folio (38.5 x 35cm)