Mar 09, 2006 - Sale 2071

Sale 2071 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 1,265
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DENISE LUBETT BINDING (BINDING.) de Fontenelle, Bernard. A Plurality of Worlds. John Glanvill's Translation. Prologue by David Garnett. Color stencilled head-pieces by T. L. Poulton. 8vo, in a designer binding by denise lubett featuring blue Oasis goat skin with onlays of grey, red, and pale blue goat skin; bookplate; matching 1/4 gilt-lettered leather clamshell box. one of 1200 numbered copies. London: Nonesuch Press, 1929

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The design is based on a medieval astronomical diagram and shows the orbit of four small spheres around a larger body. A lovely compliment to the text and a fine example of Lubett's work.