TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET BINDERY. DANTE ALIGHIERI. Vita Nuova...Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Illuminated by Nestore Leoni. N.p.[New Rochelle:] George D. Sproul 1902. 2 vols., 4to, 270 x 214 x 21mm. (10 5/8 x 8 7/16 x 13/16in.), gray morocco gilt, each cover with green onlaid morocco gilt strapwork border, enclosing a full panel decoration comprising a blue onlaid morocco gilt strapwork interlocking lozenge over a curving red strapwork onlay supporting a vellum onlaid shield at the center bearing a single gilt fleur-de-lys, the design set on a background of swirling gilt scrollwork tooling incorporating circular corner ornaments of onlaid white, green, blue and red morocco; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered longitudinally; board edges and turn-ins gilt, doublures of green and gray morocco, decoratively tooled with colored heraldic onlays, fleur-de-lys on vellum shield at centers, g.e., stamp-signed by the bindery on upper turn-ins, original padded satin-lined white watered silk boxes (worn). SAINT DUNSTAN EDITION, PRINTED ON VELLUM, an un-numbered copy, possibly extra to the edition of 30 copies, without limitation statement or name of subscriber; text on rectos only, ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN GOLD AND COLORS, with elaborate borders and approximately 100 large initials, in the North Italian fifteenth-century style of illumination. (duPont) (2)

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TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET BINDERY. DANTE ALIGHIERI. Vita Nuova...Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Illuminated by Nestore Leoni. N.p.[New Rochelle:] George D. Sproul 1902. 2 vols., 4to, 270 x 214 x 21mm. (10 5/8 x 8 7/16 x 13/16in.), gray morocco gilt, each cover with green onlaid morocco gilt strapwork border, enclosing a full panel decoration comprising a blue onlaid morocco gilt strapwork interlocking lozenge over a curving red strapwork onlay supporting a vellum onlaid shield at the center bearing a single gilt fleur-de-lys, the design set on a background of swirling gilt scrollwork tooling incorporating circular corner ornaments of onlaid white, green, blue and red morocco; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered longitudinally; board edges and turn-ins gilt, doublures of green and gray morocco, decoratively tooled with colored heraldic onlays, fleur-de-lys on vellum shield at centers, g.e., stamp-signed by the bindery on upper turn-ins, original padded satin-lined white watered silk boxes (worn). SAINT DUNSTAN EDITION, PRINTED ON VELLUM, an un-numbered copy, possibly extra to the edition of 30 copies, without limitation statement or name of subscriber; text on rectos only, ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN GOLD AND COLORS, with elaborate borders and approximately 100 large initials, in the North Italian fifteenth-century style of illumination. (duPont) (2)