Lot 379
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DE VINNE PRINTING. H. JACKEL & CO., binders SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Merry Wives of Windsor...Illuminated by John H. Tearle. [New York:] Merrill & Baker 1903. 4to, binding: 324 x 247 x 30mm. (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 1 3/16in.), dark brown crushed levant morocco, covers with gilt fillet and border of small tools framing a large design of ornamental scrollwork around a medallion with the initial S, the inlays in blue, mauve, turquoise, green, yellow, maroon and fawn morocco; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a repeated colored morocco inlaid panel in the rest, board edges with single gilt fillet, doublures of brown, fawn and various colored morocco inlays, uncut, stamp-signed by the binder on upper doublure, very slight wear to extremities, velvet-lined cloth box. ONE OF SEVEN COPIES ON VELLUM (this copy un-numbered and without subscriber's name), each copy with different decoration, printed in black on one side of the sheet only, major initials in gold, line and other smaller initials supplied in various colors, marginal watercolor drawings of women and landscape views, profusely decorated with scrollwork initial extensions, borders and other ornaments, in gold and a very wide range of colors.

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DE VINNE PRINTING. H. JACKEL & CO., binders SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Merry Wives of Windsor...Illuminated by John H. Tearle. [New York:] Merrill & Baker 1903. 4to, binding: 324 x 247 x 30mm. (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 1 3/16in.), dark brown crushed levant morocco, covers with gilt fillet and border of small tools framing a large design of ornamental scrollwork around a medallion with the initial S, the inlays in blue, mauve, turquoise, green, yellow, maroon and fawn morocco; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a repeated colored morocco inlaid panel in the rest, board edges with single gilt fillet, doublures of brown, fawn and various colored morocco inlays, uncut, stamp-signed by the binder on upper doublure, very slight wear to extremities, velvet-lined cloth box. ONE OF SEVEN COPIES ON VELLUM (this copy un-numbered and without subscriber's name), each copy with different decoration, printed in black on one side of the sheet only, major initials in gold, line and other smaller initials supplied in various colors, marginal watercolor drawings of women and landscape views, profusely decorated with scrollwork initial extensions, borders and other ornaments, in gold and a very wide range of colors.