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Lot 73
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$300 -
500
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$819
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Lot Description
[Fine Bindings] [Bennett] Irving, Washington The Alhambra
London and New York: Macmillan, 1896. First and limited edition thus, one of 500 copies printed. 4to. 436 pp. Profusely illustrated in black and white by Joseph Pennell. Bound in three-quarter burgundy crushed niger over linen-covered boards, spine elaborately gilt; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; marbled endpapers; by Bennett. Title-page browned from frontispiece tissue guard, otherwise 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).