Descrizione

2 volumes. Very Scarce First Edition. With provenance of the Newberry Library, officially withdrawn, and earlier, of Gustavia A. Senff, millionairess and wife of Charles H. Senff of the famed Senff Collection, including paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Franz Hals, Velazquez, Corot, Clays, and Hobbema, etc. With the terminal advertisements in both volumes as called for. 12mo, very handsomely bound during the period in bindings of full speckled calf, the boards framed with double-gilt rules with circular corner-tools, expertly rebacked with gilt hatched raised bands betwixt beautifully gilt tooled compartments, with the original contrasting red and green labels ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, and housed in an attractive cloth-covered clamshell box with morocco labels gilt lettered. xix, 1, 306pp, 4 ads; 310pp, 2 ads. A fine and handsome set, the text as clean and fresh as one could hope to find, the antique boards very solid with only a touch of expert restoration and minor wear, the spines beautifully accomplished.