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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated white card covers, lightly toned to edges, prior owners address label on rear cover, 37pp with many illustrations. Contains much additional material that was not able to be included in the 1965 book 'Hudson River Day Line'.

Card. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 90 Pages, 4 Plates. A Soundly Bound Book, Covers A Little Worn And A Corner Of The Front Free-Endpaper Missing. Not Ex Library.

2 vols, red buckram, leather spine-labels, top edges gilt, large folio, slipcased, 49 cm, xix, 181, [2], 48 pages of plates (some in colour) + 320 pages of colour facsimile. Thomas Trevilian's Great Book is a remarkable assemblage of drawings and texts made around 1616 by a man who was then 68 and probably a draughtsman for professional embroiderers, since many of his drawings are based on needlework patterns. His gloriously colourful miscellany has 12 main sections: 1 Almanacs: calendar, astronomical and topographical material (pp 1-90); ; 2 Old Testament history from the Creation and Flood to Josiah (91-144); 3 Kings and Queens of England from Albion to James I and Scotland from Robert II (145-246); 4 The Godly reformers: lives and portraits (247-264); 5 'Princeps Proditorum': verses and portraits of Papist traitors including the Gunpowder Plotters (265-272); 6 Sheriffs and Lord Mayors of London (273-312); 7 Pieties, Parables, New Testament scenes, genre sets: Sibyls, Muses, Virtues and Vices, Four Contients, etc. (313-524); 8 Sets of calligraphic initials and texts (525-572); 9 'The Green Dragon for Joyners and gardners': ornaments and knotwork patterns (573-654); 10 'Pottes' and pictures of flowers and trees: the illustrations from Fuchs and the text from Turner (655-879); 11 Beasts: from Topsell (880-938); ; 12 'Drawen Workes': pen-and-ink designs for black-work embroidery (939-1028). Contents: Volume One: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 Thomas Trevilian's Two Books; 2 Pious Imagination: Continuity and Change; 3 Secular Images and Sources; 4 City and Country: Weavers and Embroidere; 5 Thomas Trevilian; 6 Original or Copy?; 7 Conclusion; Appendixes; 1 Contents of Thomas Trevilian's Great Book; 2 Prints Recorded in the Stationers' Company; 3 Walter Dight's Career and Publications; Index; Supplementary Plates; Volume Two; The Facsimile. As New in the slipcases, which have a few very minor indentations.

A Facsimile from the manuscript in the Wormsley Library. With a study by Nicolas Barker. For presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 2000.Royal Folio, 19 x 11.75" (480 x 300mm). 2 volumes, 252 320 pp. Full red buckram with red leather lables and boxed, by Shepherds. Printed by the Merrion Press and the Westerham Press.London: Maggs Bros Ltd, On 12 September 1616, Thomas Trevilian reached page 456, less than half way through his Great Book of pictures and texts. Here he drew breath by inserting his name and an extravagant knotwork initial 'T', noting beneath that he was '68 yeares of age' (this is the only fact we know of his life) in the 14th year of the reign of King James I, 'whom heavenly angels guard from treacharie'. 1616 is the year that Shakespeare died and it is into the glorious imagery and colour of this world that Trevilian allows us to enter through the pages of his Great Book as if through a window.The Great Book reflects Trevilian's life and beliefs: loyalty to the crown and the Protestant faith were firmly linked as the foundation of his existence and of his life's work. the 'matter', in his own words , 'is three folde, historicall, propheticall, and evangelicall, the first teaching examples, the second manners, and the laste a spirituall and heavenly institution', but 'it is a miscelane and now otherwise to be respected, not learned, and therefore the easyer to be pardoned'.There are 12 main sections:1 - Almanacs: calendar, astronomical ad topographical material (1-90);2 - Old Testament history from the Creation and Flood to Josiah (91-144)3 - Kings and Queens of England from Albion to James 1 and Scotland from Robert ii (145-246)4 - The Godly reformers: lives and portraits (247-264)5 - 'Princeps Proditorum': verses and portraits of Papist traitors including the Gunpowder Plotters (265-272)6 - Sheriffs and Lord Mayors of London (273-312)7 - Pieties, Parables, New Testament scenes, genre sets: Sibyls, Muses, Virtues and Vices, Four Contients, etc. (313-524);8 - Sets of calligraphic initials and texts (525-572);9 - 'The Green Dragon for Joyners and gardners': ornaments and knotwork patters (573-654);10 - 'Pottes' and pictures of flowers and trees: the illustrations from Fuchs and the text from Turner (655-879);11 - Beasts: from Topsell (880-938);12 - 'Drawen Workes': pen-and-ink designs for black-work embroidery (939-1028).The last of these is, perhaps, the key to the whole. Thomas Trevilian must have been a draughtsman for professional embroiderers, and the pictures that he drew have all the charm, verve, and simplicity of what is, arguably, the most original and vigorous of the applied arts in Elizabethan and Stuart England. The brilliant unshaded colours and strong outlines of his figures and the simple landscapes filled with flowers that they populate are conceived entirely in terms of needlework. But embroidery is not the only answer, as other designs must be derived from, or intended to serve as patterns for, wall-paintings or painted cloths or designs for joiners and gardeners.Trevilian's work, however, was not what we would call original. His pictures are copied and adapted from engraved prints after Dutch artists such as Goltzius, popular woodcut broadsides and ballads, illustrated books such as Topsell's Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes and Fuchs's De historia stirpium, and others as yet unknown or even lost. The texts that accompany his drawings are also, for the most part, copied from printed sources, some from the Bible and others from books and broadsides; but some also preserve popular texts and verses that have otherwise been lost.The most fascinating aspect of Trevilian's work is his copying from printed books and broadsides of which no original copy is known to survive. Several of the moral ballads survive only in the famous Huth collection in the British Library. Others, such as the Sovereigns of Scotland, the 'Princeps Proditorum', and 'The Green Dragon', as well as lesser pieces such as the 'Winter' Queen's Wedding procession or 'Dives and Lazarus', may alos have been similar woodcut picture-books. Trevilian collected, or had access to, the full range of popular images and texts, and his Great Book is able to tell us, more than any other single survivng source, about the immensely wide range of graphic imagery that was available in the book- and print-shops of the London of his day.He was no slavish copyist, however. Many of his images, especially in the section of Bible stories and texts are of his own invention and even feature himself. He appears, a severe figure, book in hand, with neatly trimmed beard, wearing a dark coat trimmed with fur with a small ruff and a full-brimmed hat with a round crown, in 'The Authors Apostrophe to the Reader' (Pl 1) and the same figure can be seen as an onlooker in some of the scenes illustrating the Parables. A number of other figure, including that of Jesus, appear repeatedly, almost as if they are drawn from stencils or cut-outs. We do know that he was self taught because in the index he states, 'I was never taught by any to handell Apelles instruments or the muses skill, what I have done hath bin of myself without mans teaching God onlye infusing his celestial blessings.'Such is the scope of Trevilian's work that it seems extraordinary that this creation of his is not unique. Another similar, but shorter (500-page), version dated 8 years earlier (1608) is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. Trevilian was then aged 60 and, perhaps in retirement, he may have decided to gather a miscellaneous collection of workshop patters to order and replace his tattered and much-used collection of original materials. But what, other than a longer-than-expected retirement, could have made him start such a massive project again? The second version is both more orderly and longer than the first, with its extra sections of pictures of flowers, trees, and animals, and such is Trevilian's care and effort that s.

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LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1838 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 598 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 598 Language: English.