Mar 14, 2002 - Sale 1928

Sale 1928 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
QUARITCH, BERNARD. A Catalogue of Fifteen Hundred Books remarkable for the Beauty of the Age of their Bindings or as bearing Indications of Former Ownership by Great Book-Collectors and Famous Historical Personages<> * A Collection of Facsimiles from Examples of Historic or Artistic Book-Binding, illustrating the History of Binding as a Branch of the Decorative Arts.<> 103 color plates. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, red levant elaborately gilt-tooled to double-fillet strapwork design by Blunson & Co., extremities rubbed, gilt shelf number on spine. London, 1889; 1889

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Extensively indexed retail catalogue of 1512 historic bindings, a selection of which are illustrated in the accompanying album of reproductions.<