Fine Bindings, Two Examples.
Fine Bindings, Two Examples.
Thomas a Kempis's De L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ, Paris: Desprez & Desessartz, 1719, large octavo, illustrated with five full-paged engravings, bound in full contemporary crushed brown morocco, boards tooled ornately in gilt along the edges, built up from smaller individual tools, spine tooled and lettered in gilt with the same floral and small decorative motifs, aeg, marbled endleaves, inner gilt dentelles, ex libris Ernest Schytte, with his 1898 bookplate designed by Pierre Ansart pasted inside the front board; very nicely preserved; [together with] Alessandro Mazzinelli's Uffizio della Settimana Santa, Venice: Baglioni, 1753, octavo, illustrated with cuts; bound in full contemporary calf, ornately gilt-tooled over both boards and spine (some worming to top compartment), all edges gilt and gauffered, very decorative and nicely preserved. (2)
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Fine Bindings, Two Examples.
Thomas a Kempis's De L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ, Paris: Desprez & Desessartz, 1719, large octavo, illustrated with five full-paged engravings, bound in full contemporary crushed brown morocco, boards tooled ornately in gilt along the edges, built up from smaller individual tools, spine tooled and lettered in gilt with the same floral and small decorative motifs, aeg, marbled endleaves, inner gilt dentelles, ex libris Ernest Schytte, with his 1898 bookplate designed by Pierre Ansart pasted inside the front board; very nicely preserved; [together with] Alessandro Mazzinelli's Uffizio della Settimana Santa, Venice: Baglioni, 1753, octavo, illustrated with cuts; bound in full contemporary calf, ornately gilt-tooled over both boards and spine (some worming to top compartment), all edges gilt and gauffered, very decorative and nicely preserved. (2)
