Art Decoration

Cervantes, Miguel de: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha, London J. M. Dent
Fair Robinson, Heath

2 volume set, Everyman Series. Blue cloth binding with gold art nouveau decoration on spine, gold titles. Art nouveau endpapers, lush art nouveau title pages. Translation by J. G. Lockhart. Both volumes have light discolorations around edges, light shelfwear. Foxing on page edges, Volume II appears to have some insect damage inside front cover, on ffep, sfep and a bit on first title. Overall fair condition. Cloth 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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Jordan Art Gallery: Jordan Art Gallery. Paintings from the Salon and the Champ de Mars, Paris 1897. Boston Jordan, Marsh & Co. 1897
Good Illustrated

Rare exhibition catalog, art nouveau decoration to front cover, 45 pp. Frontispiece plus 4 black and white plates. Two-color text. A few worm holes to covers, faint water stain, a few contemporary pencil marks in margins. Good. Scarce. First Edition Stapled Wrappers 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Exhibition Catalog

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Holme, Charles (Hrsg.): The Art of the Book. A review of some recent European and American work in typography, page, decoration & binding. London, Paris, New York, "The Studio", 1914..
*Erste Ausgabe. - Wichtige und grundlegende Darstellung zur Buchkunst in Europa. Mit Beiträgen von B. H. Newdigate (British types for printing books); D. Cockerell (Fine bookbinding in England); L. Deubner (The art of the book in Germany) sowie A. Taylor, A. S. Levetus, A. Brunius und W. D. Orcutt (über die Buchkunst in Frankreich, Ungarn, Österreich, Schweden und Amerika). - Titel mit kl. Wappenstempel. Tlw. etw. fleckig. Einband etw. bestoßen und beschabt.

Mit zahlr. tlw. farb. Abbildungen auf Tafeln. 276 S. 4to. Priv. HLdr. mit eingeb. OKart.

[KW: Buchkunst]

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Smith, Bradley.. Mexico. a History in Art..
NF/NF DJ. Doubleday/Gemini-Smith, 1968. 296pp. 4to. Bound in facsmile amate paper w/gilt serpent decoration. 1st Edn..

[KW: MEXICO,]

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