TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, bindery. TENNYSON, ALFRED. Guinevere. Illuminated by Ross Turner. [New Rochelle]: George D. Sproul, 1902. PRINTED ON VELLUM and illuminated throughout in gold and colors, with elaborate borders and numerous large initials, text on rectos only. 4to, blue morocco elaborately gilt, double gilt fillet border surrounding floral and circular designs of turquoise, dark red, and white morocco onlays, each corner with gilt stamped "T," spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered longitudinally down the spine, g.e., minor staining to upper cover; blue morocco doublures with turquoise, white and brown morocco onlays forming a rectangle made up of 24 squares each with a central white morocco onlaid design surrounding a large central brown morocco square with blue morocco floral designs, turn-ins stamp-signed by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, original padded satin-lined white watered silk box, defective. LIMITED "SAINT DUNSTAN" EDITION, number 23 of 30 copies specially illuminated throughout by Ross Turner for Herman A. Metz.

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TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, bindery. TENNYSON, ALFRED. Guinevere. Illuminated by Ross Turner. [New Rochelle]: George D. Sproul, 1902. PRINTED ON VELLUM and illuminated throughout in gold and colors, with elaborate borders and numerous large initials, text on rectos only. 4to, blue morocco elaborately gilt, double gilt fillet border surrounding floral and circular designs of turquoise, dark red, and white morocco onlays, each corner with gilt stamped "T," spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered longitudinally down the spine, g.e., minor staining to upper cover; blue morocco doublures with turquoise, white and brown morocco onlays forming a rectangle made up of 24 squares each with a central white morocco onlaid design surrounding a large central brown morocco square with blue morocco floral designs, turn-ins stamp-signed by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, original padded satin-lined white watered silk box, defective. LIMITED "SAINT DUNSTAN" EDITION, number 23 of 30 copies specially illuminated throughout by Ross Turner for Herman A. Metz.

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