Books and Manuscripts

London: Printed for the Society of English Bibliophilists, 1896. In two volumes. First and limited edition, #359/520 numbered copies. 8vo. Illustrated "with eighty-five engravings by Eisen and thirty-eight after Lancret, Boucher, Pater, Etc." Bound in full tan niger, elaborately gilt; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; enclosed in leather-entry slip case; by Bennett. A fine copy.

A lovely example from The Bennett Book Studios, a fine book bindery in New York City established in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett (1884-1968).

From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).