1935 The Canterbury Psalter

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Rebound, Signed Binding

A limited edition of 425 numbered copies for sale, of which this copy is number 418. 

Handsomely rebound in half morocco, with decorative paper covered boards and marbled endpapers. Held in a matching cloth-backed clamshell with spine label. 

With a coloured frontispiece, three coloured plates, and two hundred and eighty-six facsimile pages. Collated, complete. 

A terrific facsimile of The Canterbury Psalter, an illuminated manuscript made partly in Canterbury in 1200 and in Catalonia around 1340. With an introduction by M. R. James, an English medievalist, scholar and author, who here gives the history and origin of the Psalter as well as descriptive notes. 

Printed and published for the "Friends of Canterbury Cathedral". 

Bound by Eric Sweet, a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art, before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.