Rothschild

c. 1850. Full morocco, 24 inches tall. A magnificent and colossal full morocco by the great firm of Leighton of Brewer Street, with their ticket. A unique deluxe copy from the Rothschild library at Exbury. Bound with gilt raised bands, natural calf label and absolutely superb gilt tooling to the panels, a fabulous series of huge gilt rolls to the boards, gilt dentelles and all edges. Illustrated with an engraved title page, a dedication leaf and 50 India proof engraved plates, each with an accompanying leaf of text. Some foxing in to the preliminaries and the margins, rather than the actual images, then clean. A stunning and unique example of this very rare complete deluxe edition.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1890. 2 volume set, 10 1/2 inches tall. A very fine full morocco binding by the great firm of J. Leighton of Brewer Street. With gilt raised bands, superb gilt tooling to the panels and boards, gilt dentelles and all edges. With the bookplate of Alfred de Rothschild. Some superficial marking to the binding, but a super set. From a limited edition of 210 copies with the etchings in 2 states and the 'Masks', illustrating the Italian Commedia dell' Arte, hand coloured. A wonderful set of the Memoirs of this great Venetian 18th century playwright in English.