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420 Page Special Contents Sliipcase Edition. Later reprint of the 1953 Copyright. Yellow boards with blue decorations and gold spine lettering. Metallic gold slipcase is in Good condition with some scuffs and edge wear. Page edges are speckled blue. There is a Jack Pardee Ex Libris and an inked two-line note that reads Phoenix, Ariz. 1964, on the front endpapers.Faultless interior. Laid-in is a four-page book review called the Sandglass which was issued monthly to the Members of the Heritage Club. This is what the Sandglass had to say about the binding --- Born in 1956 John Baskerville of Birmingham (not the Alabama Birmingham) became a writing-master and a cutter of inscriptions in stone. He also made a lot of money by perfecting the process of japanning, which is the art of coating various surfaces with varnishes. He made so much money that he was thereafter able to devote his time to what he had wanted to do all along, and that was to design type, an outgrowth of his calligraphic days. He established a press and began printing beautiful books -- a Virgil, a Milton, a Bible, a Book of Common Prayer, and then a long run of Latin authors. The business was still flourishing when he died in 1775. His types had already attained wide popularity, particularly on the Continent; they also strongly influenced British letter-founders. The Baskerville type for this Three Musketeers book has been set in the style of an old French chronicle, two columns to each of the 420 pages, and these columns are contained by rules and decorated with fleurs-de-lis. The type was set by Peter Beilenson of Mount Vernon, New York, and the printing has been performed by Kellogg & Bulkeley of Hartford, Connecticut, on paper manufactured by the Chillicothe Paper Company of Chillicothe, Ohio. The illustrations have been printed by the Photo-Gravure and Color Company of New York. The binding is a rich yellow cloth specially made for this edition. The yellow cloth is printed in blue in a formal Gallic pattern of panels and fleurs-de-Iis, and stamped in gold. The effect is thoroughly French, one might say thoroughly seventeenth-century French. The binding has been affixed by the Russell-Rutter Company of New York, under the direction of Frank Fortney as Fifth Musketeer. The illustrations were drawn by Edy Legrand, who was bforn in Bordeaux in 1892, and was educated in Switzeerland, France, Germany, and Italy. Just as he was about to become a professional artist, the First World war broke out and he went into the French infantry. Later he became an aviator. He likes big projects, and we don't mean decorating the bulkheads of several great French passenger liners, though he had done that too. We mean big like the edivine Comedy, 200 drawings., The works of Shakespeare, 256 drawings, and the Bible 400 drawings and 49 drawings for The Three Musketeers that are included in this book. A book from the Jack McK. Pardee Collection. Mr. Pardee was a collector of Americana who focused on frontier and natural history, hunting, wildlife, and firearms and is noted not only for his book selections but for his careful handling and storage. Most of his collection had faultless interior pages. E-mail for scans or more information regarding the Pardee collection.
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