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Lot 74
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$600 -
900
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$945
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Lot Description
[Fine Bindings] [Bennett] [Lindsay, Norman] Norman Lindsay's Pen Drawings
Sydney: Art in Australia Limited, (1931). First edition. 4to. Profusely illustrated. Finely bound in full scarlet morocco, boards stamped in gilt with figure drawings by Lindsay; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; by Bennett; original wrappers bound in; in red cloth slip case.
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).