Sep 20, 2001 - Sale 1905

Sale 1905 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 1,265
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MORGAN COLLECTION, J. PIERPONT.) Pictures in the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan at Princes Gate & Dover House, London. Introduction by Humphrey Ward. Numerous photogravure plates of paintings with lettered tissue guards, frontispieces in color, with descriptions by William Roberts. 3 volumes. Large thick folios specially bound by zaehnsdorf with elaborate gilt borders on covers, spine with raised bands and lettering in two compartments and decorations in four, gilt turn-ins, and watered silk endpapers; joints tender or starting, light scattered rubbing and scuffing; silk endpapers variously worn, heaviest on English School volume; discreet inked catalogue numbers on endpapers.<\t>London: Privately Printed, 1907

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The three volumes are The English School The Dutch and Flemish, Italian, and Spanish Schools Modern Schools. A beautiful and lavish production.