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A Page of Love Fore-edge painting
1897143835Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son 1897. Hardcover. Near fine. Edition Magnifique of Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporian Realists. Limited to five copies. viii 319; viii 361 pp. unpaginated plates. 2 Volumes. Octavo hardcover. Bound in full teal levant morocco leather boards designed with impressed gilt decorations double ruled in gilt. Spines with 5 raised bands each divided in six compartments decorated and lettered in gilt slightly darkened. All edges trimmed and gilt. Each volume with a vertical fore-edge painting. Inner side of the boards covered with terra cotta levant morocco doublures elaborately decorated impressed in gilt designed in green blue and white. Joints starting as usual to the fore-edge painting books. Pale blue moiré silked free endpapers; the majority of the blue silk has become detached and is laid-in in incomplete pieces. Free endpapers toned with light pencil notations. Small gallery labels to rear free endpapers recto. Illustrated with monochrome copper etchings each with a hand-coloured douplicate some guarded with tissue paper. Leaves bright and charming tight binding. Near fine condition. 2 volumes each with a fore-edge painting. vol. 1 depicting a couple standing together vol. 2 depicting a nude woman holding a child.</p><p>Limited edition of five copies of which this is number one. Printed only for subscribers. </p><p>Hammer Galleries typed letter signed on their stationary laid in dated March 1941 </p><p>From the Estate of Randall J. Moskovitz MD Memphis Tennessee. 1897 George Barrie & Son hardcover
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