Shakespeare poems on love

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Shakespeare poems on love

Sangorski illuminated manuscript, c.1919

SANGORSKI, Alberto (1862-1932), calligrapher and illuminator. RIVIERE & SON, binders. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). “The Potency of Love. An Anthology.” [London, 1918-21.]



“Love’s feeling is more soft, and sensible,

Than are the tender horns of cockled snails…”



Alberto Sangorski illuminated manuscript with extensive illustrations: 14 large miniatures depicting scenes of women and putti, views of Stratford-upon-Avon, and portraits of Shakespeare. Executed in a color scheme of predominately rich purples, dark greens and blues, the borders frequently incorporating jewel shapes and hearts. The calligraphed certification leaf at the end reads: "The Potency of Love. An Anthology by William Shakespeare and 'Tributes of Three Centuries' a Monograph written by Sir Sidney Lee on the occasion of the Tercentenary of the death of the poet April 1916. This manuscript was designed, written out, and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski. This manuscript will not be duplicated," and signed by Sangorski. This is a stunning production.



Quarto (260 x 205mm). Illuminated manuscript on vellum, 21 leaves, plus 2 blank vellum leaves (a touch of fingersoiling to blanks), mounted on guards. Title in shaded red calligraphy on richly gilt ground, surrounded by a full border of colors and gold incorporating a portrait of Shakespeare signed in monogram and dated 1919; full-page frontispiece miniature after a painting by Bouguereau with similar full border; the text of the poems on pp. 5-17 richly illuminated with frequent large illuminated initials and full-page borders which incorporate 5 additional miniatures; tail-piece miniature with putto; section title with a portrait of Shakespeare and his achievement of arms; text of biography on pp. 21-37 with illuminated initials and partial borders in a different style and incorporating 6 miniature views of Stratford-upon-Avon buildings and monuments, one initial inhabited and held by a devil; leaf with Milton’s epitaph in red calligraphy.



Full crushed blue pictorial morocco gilt binding by Rivière & Son, ivory silk doublures and flyleaves, all edges gilt. The upper cover with a central cartouche with Shakespeare's achievement of arms onlaid in brown, black, citron, silvered and gilt morocco, surrounded by a floral border incorporating stems, leaves and flowers onlaid in citron, red, tan and green morocco and two black morocco onlaid frames. The lower cover also richly decorated with morocco onlays; a central design of a love heart with bow and arrows and olive branch, surrounded by a branch border with leaves and hearts, a double frame of dark blue morocco filled with onlaid red morocco hearts and dots. Spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt-decorated floral panel with onlaid strapwork in the remaining; board edges with double-gilt rule; turn-ins bordered in similar design to the lower cover. Doublures and fly-leaves of ivory moiré silk (flyleaves fraying). Stamp-signed by Rivière & Son on the upper turn-in. Full morocco box lined with silk and velvet, metal clasps.

Provenance: Frederick S. Peck (bookplate) – Christie’s 25 June 1997, lot 215.

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