Lot 249
Toussaint (Franz) Le Jardin des Caresses, one of 500 copies, magnificently bound in purple morocco, richly gilt with Moorish design, Paris, 1914.
Hammer Price: £3,500
Description
Toussaint (Franz, translator) Le Jardin des Caresses, number 266 of 400 copies on vélin, from an edition limited to 500, colour decorative additional title & title, 20 pochoir plates heightened with gold by Léon Carré, tissue guards, text with printed illuminations in colours and gold, occasional light marginal spotting, magnificently bound in purple morocco, by Otto Schulze & Co of Edinburgh, covers with rich Moorish design of central circle of onlaid green strapwork within onlaid terracotta frame and outer border of tan morocco, the whole elaborately tooled in gilt with flowers, rosettes & ornaments, spine titled in gilt and with compartments of similar tools and five raised bands, doublures of purple morocco containing onlaid centrepiece of pink morocco within border of pink & tan morocco all elaborately tooled in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, signed at foot of front turn-in, original decorative wrapper bound in at end, spine very slightly faded, slight rubbing to joints and corners, split to lower joint, 4to (c.310 x 230mm.), Paris, 1914.
Description
Toussaint (Franz, translator) Le Jardin des Caresses, number 266 of 400 copies on vélin, from an edition limited to 500, colour decorative additional title & title, 20 pochoir plates heightened with gold by Léon Carré, tissue guards, text with printed illuminations in colours and gold, occasional light marginal spotting, magnificently bound in purple morocco, by Otto Schulze & Co of Edinburgh, covers with rich Moorish design of central circle of onlaid green strapwork within onlaid terracotta frame and outer border of tan morocco, the whole elaborately tooled in gilt with flowers, rosettes & ornaments, spine titled in gilt and with compartments of similar tools and five raised bands, doublures of purple morocco containing onlaid centrepiece of pink morocco within border of pink & tan morocco all elaborately tooled in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, signed at foot of front turn-in, original decorative wrapper bound in at end, spine very slightly faded, slight rubbing to joints and corners, split to lower joint, 4to (c.310 x 230mm.), Paris, 1914.
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