12th Sep, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
  Lot 147
 

147

Seguin, Lisabeth Gooch A Picturesque Tour in Picturesque Lands. Strahan and Company Limited,...

Seguin, Lisabeth Gooch A Picturesque Tour in Picturesque Lands. Strahan and Company Limited, 1881. Folio, publisher's vellum-backed calf, boards ornately decorated with broad gilt roll-tooled borders enclosing four onlaid contrasting green calf cornerpieces with gilt floral design around onlaid central red calf ovals with gilt tulip design, all joined with thin onlaid red calf with gilt single broken fillet, around a central onlaid green calf lozenge wavy with gilt floral design enclosing onlaid red calf oval bearing decorative gilt 'S', spine backed in vellum with central onlaid decorative calf lettering piece in red and green with green calf gilt decorations at head and foot, top edges gilt, foredges uncut, marbled endpapers; with over 160 woodcut illustrations retaining tissue guards. Edition de luxe. On special handmade paper, with Proofs of Illustration on Japanese Paper. No. 102 of 300 copies for England (and 300 copies for America).

Sold for £70
Estimated at £80 - £120


 

A touch of rubbing etc to boards, spine darkened with a little loss to lettering piece, lower joint a touch cracked (although still well attached), foredges a little dirty, with occasional marginal marking, but a clean copy.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 12th Sep, 2018

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