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Lot 70
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$1,008
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Lot Description
[Fine Bindings] [Bennett] Fontaine J. de la Tales and Novels in Verse
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).