An unusual pair of handscreens in the form of open books, the rectos with the text of the Lady of the Lake, Canto I and Ellen Fitzarthur, Canto II, both with applied hand-coloured engravings and signed Bruxelles 1826 de Constant Prebieque de Villars, the versos of crimson morocco with gilt and blind tooling labelled English Poets, vol.III, with turned parcel gilt wooden handles - 15in. (40cm.), South Netherlands, 1826
An unusual pair of handscreens in the form of open books, the rectos with the text of the Lady of the Lake, Canto I and Ellen Fitzarthur, Canto II, both with applied hand-coloured engravings and signed Bruxelles 1826 de Constant Prebieque de Villars, the versos of crimson morocco with gilt and blind tooling labelled English Poets, vol.III, with turned parcel gilt wooden handles - 15in. (40cm.), South Netherlands, 1826

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An unusual pair of handscreens in the form of open books, the rectos with the text of the Lady of the Lake, Canto I and Ellen Fitzarthur, Canto II, both with applied hand-coloured engravings and signed Bruxelles 1826 de Constant Prebieque de Villars, the versos of crimson morocco with gilt and blind tooling labelled English Poets, vol.III, with turned parcel gilt wooden handles - 15in. (40cm.), South Netherlands, 1826
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