May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BOOKBINDING.) Uzanne, Octave. L'Art dans la Décoration Extérieure des Livres en France et à l'Étranger: Les Couvertures Illustrées, Les Cartonnages d'Éditeur, La Reliure d'Art. Profusion of reproductions. 4to, contemporary 3/4 red morocco by Durvand, flat spine gilt with lettering piece and simple floral design of multi-colored morocco onlays, original color-pictorial wrappers after Louis Rhead bound in; front hinge cracked with text block loose from spine. Paris, 1898
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first edition of a lavishly illustrated survey of fin-de-siècle French and foreign binding and cover design, limited to 1060 numbered copies, this copy out-of-series. With the bookplate of Cortlandt F. Bishop (15 November 1938, lot 2285).