Guilbert Melle (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Chez Guilbert, Paris 1838
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB
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Original price: US$ 700.00; 25% offCurrent price: US$ 525.00
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1/4 Crimson Morocco. Condition: Cover Wear, Soiling. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pebbled light purple cloth boards, front cover aded to tan. Spine lettered in gilt. Bound by J. MACKENZIE, London printer and bookbinder from 1811-1840'[s, "Bookbinder to the King". lListing of plates just in front of the title-page. Twelve plate…s, lithographed and hand-colored. Lovely ornate borders and historiated first letters. Colors are bright with gilt highlights. The gilt on the title-page is muted compared to other plates. Quite delicately done. All plates are protected with a blank tissue-guard. They are clean and fresh. Marbled endpapers. Evidence of attempt to remove book-plate from front free endpaper. Armorial book-plate of George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman on front pastedown. He was a British clergyman and antiquary who lived from 1823-1895, son of the 2nd Earl of Bradford. Please see photos. Size: Thin Octavo.
