1932 parrish maxfield 1870 (1 risultati)

[6], 1-252, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 15.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Burgundy cloth; front board decorated with gilt stamped lettering and there-line border along with fleur-de-lis, letter "x," and winged insect (either bees or butterflies) motif; obtrusively pervasive mottling/staining to surface cloth on rear board and spine with latter additionally having small chips exposing inner backstrip and loss of most lettering. Gilt top edge; deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Past owner's two-line ink inscription "Eleanor Whitney Allen | 1902" at top of front free endpaper; light vertical crease to several initial leaves; light foxing occurring to book's b/w plates and their adjacent pages; a few spots of scattered soiling; text leaves otherwise remain mostly clean. Front and rear hinges shaken; text block is firm. All b/w plates on unpaged leaves and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish; b/w frontispiece and b/w pictorial title with interlaying guard sheet; "List of Illustrations" on page [5] excludes the frontis and title and cites eighteen plates amongst text but only seventeen are present (lacking plate opposite page 92 but with no evidence as in a stub or remnant tearing that it was ever present). Unpaged publisher ad leaf at rear. Half-title verso has 1899 John Lane copyright statement at center along with "The University Press, U.S.A." specified at bottom center; pictorial title specifies 1900. A poor copy per the exterior cosmetics and sold as is but a rebinder could certainly preserve the front board and rematch the spine and rear board.…