Beschreibung:

Fine Bindings and Extra-Illustrated Books, Thirteen Volumes, 1838-1906. Mrs. Jameson's Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles the Second, London: Colburn, 1838, in two volumes, portraits hand-colored throughout, bound in half green morocco, gilt tooled spines; Julia Kavanagh's French Women of Letters, London: Hurst & Blackett, 1862, two volumes, extra-illustrated, bound in full royal blue crushed morocco, with gilt-decorated boards and spines, by Bayntun, in slipcase; Frances Elliot's Old Court Life in France, London: Chapman & Hall, 1873, extra-illustrated, in full deep purple crushed morocco by W. Root and Son, in custom slipcase; Reminiscences and Souvenirs of Madame Vigee le Brun, London: Long & Grover, 1879, extra-illustrated, bound in half dark blue morocco by Root, in buckram dust covers, custom slipcase; Count Anthony Hamilton's Memoirs of the Count de Gramont, London: Vizetelly, 1889, in two volumes, bound in half red morocco, gilt spines; The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maudevile Kt., Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1895, number 96 of 100 copes, signed by the publisher on the limitation page, in full calfskin, elaborately gilt-tooled spine; Octave Uzanne's Fashion in Paris, London: Heinemann, 1898, illustrated with color plates throughout, bound in half crushed dark green morocco, gilt-tooled spine (faded); John Thomas Smith's A Book for a Rainy Day, London: Methuen & Co., 1905, extra-illustrated, in half dark blue morocco by Root, in a slipcase; [and] Memoirs of Count Gramont, London: Bickers & Son, 1906, edited by Allan Fea, illustrated, bound in half red morocco by Bayntun; various formats and sizes, octavo and large quarto. (13) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934).