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Musée du Louvre. Le Mobilier Français du XVIIe et du XVIIIe Siècle. (French Furniture from the 17th and 18th Centuries).
Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts. Émile Lévy, 1901. Full morocco, 16 inches tall. A magnificent binding, unsigned but by the great firm of J. Leighton of Brewer Street. With gilt raised bands, twin labels and fabulous gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Gilt top edge and dentelles. With the bookplate of Alfred de Rothschild. Some slight foxing to the preliminaries but in fine condition. Illustrated with photographs in the text and then with 100 superb plates, many sepia and with 7 in colour. A sumptuous record of the Golden Age of French furniture when some of the finest and most refined pieces were ever created, in a fabulous binding from the library of a great connoisseur.
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La Collection Wallace. Meubles et Objets d'Art Français des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles. (French Furniture and Objects of Art from the 17th and 18th Centuries).
More details Price: £2,600.00
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The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi.
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.
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Memoirs of the Life of The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
More details Price: £900.00
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Legends of the Madonna, as Represented in the Fine Arts.
London: Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1852. Full calf, 8 1/4 inches tall. A superb binding with gilt raised bands, twin labels and extra gilt panels. All edges gilt and dentelles on large squares. With the bookplate of Alfred de Rothschild. Embellished with 152 woodcuts and 29 line engravings, as called for. Slight blotchiness on the labels and boards, overall a wonderful volume of one of Dublin born, Anna Brownell Jameson's, great art histories.
More details Price: £420.00