Nov 24, 2015 - Sale 2400

Sale 2400 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SPAIN.) COLE, TIMOTHY. Old Spanish Masters. Notes by Charles Caffin. 31 engravings on tissue, within frame borders and captioned tissue guards, each pencil-signed by cole in margins. Folio, 1/4 vellum over boards, spine darkened, some overall soiling. New York: The Century Co., 1907

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beautiful and equisite engravings on tissue. number 74 of 100 presentation copies signed by cole. Printed on hand-made paper and signed by J. C. Bauer at the De Vinne Press. inscribed and signed by cole and with a tipped-in postcard to the recipient, Dr. Herman T. Radin, concerning this copy: ". . . We will never have such fine printing again, because the paper is not to be found of such a fine silky even pure fibre." 29 October 1919. With Radin's bookplate mounted between inscription and tipped-in postcard.