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Romancero
by Heredia, José-Maria de. Text Écrit , Enluminé et Historié par Malatesta (Manuscript created and illuminated by Malatesta)
- Used
- Fine
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris, 1906. Full Morocco. Slipcase with marbled paper pastedown and morocco edges. Dust jacket with morocco spine and morocco edges. . Fine/Fine. Gorgeous illuminated and calligraphic manuscript on vellum leaves, magnificently bound. Supposedly this showcase manuscript was on display at the Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles in 1910! The manuscript is written in French, and based on a Spanish tale. 4to. 29.5 by 22.5 cm. 21 vellum leaves, including blanks, featuring 13 watercolor illustrations, three headings with large decorative initials in red, blue and green, and 69 smaller decorative initials also colored. Additional pictorial architectural title in grisaille, watercolour over pencil with title in gold and "Pour Monsieur Raymond Claude Lafontaine" at foot. Primary title -- some might regard this as the half-title -- has red and black lettering and below appears a vignette of a knight holding a disembodied head. All the watercolor paintings are signed with the artist's initials. Two bookplates. One is etched, the other, is of P.Brunet. Both are mounted on front free endpaper. Endpapers are a gold and green patterned silk. The spectacular binding was done by Henri Marius Michel. The cover has a geometrical design of nine deeply inset panels inlaid with leaves and berries in morocco of various reds and browns. The spine is rounded and has four pairs of raised bands. The turn-ins are of light brown morocco ruled in gilt with crimson morocco leaf at corners, gold brocade doublures and flyleaves. The binding epitomizes an Art Nouveau aesthetic, with homage to the Gothic or Medieval. Condition: book itself without issue, as is DJ, which is quarter morocco, morocco fold, marbled paper pastedown matching that of slipcase. Slipcase with minor rubbing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006908
- Title
- Romancero
- Author
- Heredia, José-Maria de. Text Écrit , Enluminé et Historié par Malatesta (Manuscript created and illuminated by Malatesta)
- Format/Binding
- Full Morocco. Slipcase with marbled paper pastedown and morocco edges. Dust jacket with morocco spine and morocco edges.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1906
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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