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Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 273, 247 Pp. Volumes One And Two Of Four, Only. Full Green Morocco, Inlays Of Red Flowers And Green Leaves, Gilt Stems, Gilt Lettering And Design On Spine, Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Foredge And Bottom Edge, White Morocco Inlaid Doublures Ornately Illustrated With Green And Red Design With Gilt, Silk Endpapers, Silk Bookmarks Bound In, Gilt Rules Along Foredges Of Boards. Special Edition And Binding, With Introductory Leaf Stating "Six Copies Of This Edition Are Printed On Japanese Vellum; One Of Which Is Assigned To The Library Of The British Museum; One To The Library Of Congress; One Is Presented To Dr. Richard Garnett; One Is Retained By The Society, And Two Will Be Sold By Auction". Vellum Paper Watermarked "Bibliophile Society" In A Vertical Strip Near The Foredges. Extra Illustrated With Extra Frontispieces, The Extra Frontispieces Being The Usual Frontispiece Engravings Entirely Hand Colored And Re-Signed "Pyle", Apparently By Pyle As The Signatures Are Correct. Further Extra-Illustrated With Original Marginal Watercolor Illustrations, Mainly Of Bibliophile Scenes, A Few Of Book Collecting, 17 Illustrations In Volume I, 26 Illustrations In Volume Ii. Volume I And Ii Only, Apparently An Incomplete Project Of The Bibliophile Society And Pyle, Probably One Of The Six Copies Identified On The Limitation Page In The Book But Also Possibly An Incomplete Special Edition. Well Preserved, Fine Or Near Fine.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Four volumes; one of 483 copies. Illustrated with four etchings by W.H. W. Bicknell after paintings by Howard Pyle. A near fine set. [With] Etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell after Original Paintings by Howard Pyle. Large folio; publishers boards with metal clasps; soiled and worn; one of 320 sets. These plates were made in a much larger size, each plate signed by Bicknell and Pyle. Aside from the four illustrations in the Dibdin, this folio included one of Richard DeBury. The etchings are slightly larger than 18 x 25', image approximately 10 x 17'; with the original matting and tissue guards. All five cancelled proofs are present, but this set lacks the finished etching of Walton. The illustrations are in excellent condition. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.