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Lot 57
Sale 5041 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 26, 2013
6:00AM ET
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$1,300
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1 vol.
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1 vol.
(Société des Beaux Arts.) Shakespeare, [William]. Romeo & Juliet. Paris, n.d. [ca. 1895]. Edition des Deux Mondes, 1/20 on Japon vellum, out-of-series copy. Lg 8vo, contemp full richly gilt paneled & foliate crushed brown morocco with green, red & white gilt decorated floral morocco cover & spine onlays, richly gilt foliate turn-ins, crushed green morocco doublures with hand-painted vellum oval onlay at front, silked endpapers, t.e.g., other edges rough cut, raised bands; top fore-edge of covers moderately rubbed. Illus by J. Wagrez & Louis Titz, text illus, triple suite of engraved plates: plain, colored & India proof. Bookplate of Alice Maude Howes. Bright, sound & attractive.