Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 476

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[FRANCK, PETER; binder]. Moore, T. Sturge. Roderigo of Bivar. Designed by Bruce Rogers. 8vo, full golden morocco by Franck, with a central gilt-tooled design to both boards fashioned of printers' ornaments that were probably designed by Rogers, the ornaments are repeated in a gilt border to the outer edges of the boards, on the turn-ins, and on the spine, which is in five compartments with gilt lettering to the center compartment; some uniform toning to spine; housed in a fleece-lined morocco and decorated-paper folding case, lettered in gilt on the spine. Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1925

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Franck at one time executed tooled leather bindings for the Roycroft Shop, where he worked alongside Dard Hunter, Louis Kinder, and Sterling Lord.