Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

Arnhem: (Crispijn van de Passe and Jan Jansson), 1620. Two parts in one volume. First edition. Folio. iii, 240 pp. Two-page "post prefatio" wanting, as usual. Text in Latin. Illustrated with engraved title-page, and 67 engraved plates (65 portraits and 2 monuments) by Willem and Magdalena Van de Passe. Full diced Russia, rebacked, spine worn, extremities rubbed, elaborately decorated in blind and in gilt; all edges gilt; green endpapers; book-plates of William Carr mounted to front paste-down; title-page re-margined; large old and partially repaired vertical closed tear to L2, affecting text and image; slip containing additional printed text pasted to foot of O5v; plate of the tomb of Elizabeth I trimmed to plate mark, mounted, and partially hand-colored (between D2-3); scattered old repairs along edges; old lot description and receipt for this book (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, December 19, 1898, lot 500), as well as an additional description for another copy (Quaritch), mounted to rear paste-down. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 145-162; Lowndes II, 1089

First edition of "The most trustworthy series of English portraits published up to that time" (Hind). Those pictured include Tudor and Jacobean monarchs, noblemen, ecclesiastics, and courtiers.