binding burton richard (1 Ergebnisse)

12 volumes, including the Supplemental Nights (vols 9-12), 71 photogravure illustrations complete with captioned tissue guards (including a frontispiece in each volume), title-pages printed in red and black, with the additional facsimile Kamashastra Society imprint title-pages, top edges gilt, fore-edges untrimmed; original half maroon morocco with green linen boards, 26 x 17 cms, spines gilt decorated in compartments between raised bands and gilt lettered in English and Arabic, marbled endpapers, with bookseller?s ticket of A.H. Spencer; prelims and fore-edges a little foxed, scant foxing elsewhere, a gathering in the first two volumes a little shaken, a couple of text leaves with minor edge tears, but the fine illustrations clean, with fine deep tone, a handsomely bound set in very good condition. The handsome H.S. Nichols' Library Edition of Burton's classic work with fine photogravure illustrations. Nichols included reproductions of the original "Kamashastra Society" title-pages reprinting the original 16 volume work into the 12 volume Library Edition, following Burton's death in 1890.