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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. The Golden Latin Gospels in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan (formerly known as the "Hamilton Gospels" and sometimes as "King Henry the VIIIth's Gospels". Now edited for the first time, with Critical Introduction and Notes, and accompanied by four full-page fac-similes. By H. C. Hoskier. New York: Privately Printed by Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1910. PRESENTED BY J.P. Morgan himself and likely signed in secretarial hand. Limited Edition - 200 copies printed. Half-vellum paper covered binding measures 14.75 x 10.5", 4to. In good condition. Boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of vellum spine collapsed; vellum soiled. Gilt lettering dulled/soiled. But legible. Top edge of text-block gilt; fore & bottom edges deckled. Ex-library bookplate on front paste-down: "Archbishop Corrigan Memorial Library". Ex-library permanent ink stamp on front end-page & title page: "Students' Library St. Joseph's Seminary Dunwoodie, N.Y.". Gift inscription found on front end-page: "Presentation Copy - Compliments of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq". Very light toning in margins. Sparse instances of finger-soiling. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (1837 - 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as JPMorgan Chase & Co., he was a driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidations in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. As early as 1890 Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints. This great codex is one of the chief monuments of mediaeval Latin calligraphy. Abbot Gasquet, in preparing for the Benedictine revision of the Vulgate with which he has been charged, asked Mr. Hoskier to examine the Morgan gospels, and Mr. Hoskier consequently published an account and collation of the manuscript for Mr. Morgan. Presented and signed for J.P. Morgan! RAREA1910DSTP - 11/25 - HK2912.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hoskier, H. C., editor. The Golden Latin Gospels in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan (formerly known as the 'Hamilton Gospels' and sometimes as King Henry the VIIIth's Gospels), Now edited for the first time, with Critical Introduction and Notes, and accompanied by four full-page fac-similes. New York: Privately printed for J. Pierpont Morgan, 1910. One of 200 copies. Quarter vellum, with a few small smudges; gilt lettering to spine. Brown paper covered boards, slightly bumped to corners. Folio (35 cm). cxi, 363pp. Illustrated with four facsimiles, two in gilt on brown paper and two in black and white. Tissue guards. Outer and bottom deckled edges, top edge gilt. Slight remains of bookplate. Contents clean and bright. In the remarkable collection of manuscripts and books belonging to J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, probably none is more notable than the Golden Gospels. Beautifully written on large sheets of purple parchment, in letters of gold, this great codex is one of the chief monuments of mediaeval Latin calligraphy. Abbot Gasquet, in preparing for the Benedictine revision of the Vulgate with which he has been charged, asked Mr. Hoskier to examine the Morgan gospels, and Mr. Hoskier has consequently published an account and collation of the manuscript for Mr. Morgan. Mr The folio, limited to 200 copies, in which they are printed is a masterpiece of the printer s art (Edgar J. Goodspeed, The Biblical World, July 1911). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.