Author: QUAILE, EDWARD (1821-1900 ) .
Title: Illuminated Manuscripts : Their Origin, History and Characteristics. A Sketch, By Edward Quaile. With twenty-six examples from books of hours in his possession .
Description: Liverpool : H. Young & Sons, South Castle Street, 1897 . 0. Signed first edition. 8vo. 8.75" x 7.0" x 1.0". pp.xi./[1p.]/pp.149/ [1p.] + xxvi plates (including colour frontispiece) . A very good original maroon cloth binding. Gilt title to front board and spine. Rubbing to edges and corners. Spined sunned. Top page edge gilt, other page edges deckled (rough-cut). Old library label to verso of the front board: "Bournemouth Natural Science Society." Neat inscription to front endpaper: "To Jos. Le Paira. With all good wishes of the writer a friend of more than half a century, Edw. Quaile. Feb 1898". Foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean text a nd illustrations throughout. VG. ** Edward Quaile (7th May 1821 - 29th August 1900 ) . The Quaile family moved from Dumfries, Scotland to Liverpool around the 1830s, where Edward was apprenticed to a cotton broker. By 1870, he was President of the Cotton Broker’s Association, and living in Birkenhead. He built up an enviable collection of illuminated manuscripts and other antiquities. Amongst Quaile’s collection of antiquities was one artifact of singular significance to Burns Night: the last razor that Robert Burns, the bard himself, ever shaved with." - See Flaybrick Memorial Gardens Project .

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