Lot 242
Gruel (Léon, binder).- Barres (Maurice) Un Jardin sur l'Oronte, one of 475 copies, bound in turquoise morocco with pictorial inlays, Paris, 1927.
Hammer Price: £2,400
Description
Gruel (Léon, binder).- Barres (Maurice) Un Jardin sur l'Oronte, number 289 of 475 copies, title, head- & tail-pieces and decorations printed in black and gold, colour woodcut frontispiece, head-piece and 15 plates by André Suréda engraved by Robert Dill, some light offsetting, bound in turquoise morocco with pictorial inlays, by Gruel, covers with design of inlaid beige & dark green morocco flowers within border of strips & rules with triangular arabesque ornament to each side, spine titled in gilt with similar ornaments at head & foot, cream morocco doublures with all-over lattice design tooled in gilt within dark green strips and gilt rule border, gold flyleaves, g.e., signed at foot of front turn-in, original wrappers bound in, half calf chemise (rubbed at joints) and board slip-case (rubbed, one corner bumped), 4to (c.300 x 230mm.), Paris, 1927.
Description
Gruel (Léon, binder).- Barres (Maurice) Un Jardin sur l'Oronte, number 289 of 475 copies, title, head- & tail-pieces and decorations printed in black and gold, colour woodcut frontispiece, head-piece and 15 plates by André Suréda engraved by Robert Dill, some light offsetting, bound in turquoise morocco with pictorial inlays, by Gruel, covers with design of inlaid beige & dark green morocco flowers within border of strips & rules with triangular arabesque ornament to each side, spine titled in gilt with similar ornaments at head & foot, cream morocco doublures with all-over lattice design tooled in gilt within dark green strips and gilt rule border, gold flyleaves, g.e., signed at foot of front turn-in, original wrappers bound in, half calf chemise (rubbed at joints) and board slip-case (rubbed, one corner bumped), 4to (c.300 x 230mm.), Paris, 1927.
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