Sold for:
$4,750
$4,750
Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux Arts, 1896. 2 vols. Folios, plates loose as issued in publisher's pictorial boards with cloth ties. Complete with 144 lithographs after watercolors by Grasset executed by several of his pupils, including Verneuil, Giacometti and J. Milesi. Boards soiled and worn; vol. 1 lacking cloth ties; spines deteriorating; ex-library copy with Havervill Public Library stamps to verso of all plates; bookplate tipped in front pastedown, vol. 2; marginal chipping to most leaves not affecting images; light offsetting from plates; otherwise a fine set with bright fresh colors.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2013-08-07