DOVES BINDERY. RUSKIN, JOHN. Arrows of the Chace. Orpington, Kent: George Allen 1880. 2 vols., 4to, 296 x 237 x 32mm. (11 5/8 x 9 3/8 x 1 1/4 [33mm. (1 5/16)]in.), olive brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet outer border, enclosing a middle border of single gilt fillet interspersed with solid dots and leaf (Tidcombe E1c), framing an inner border of double gilt fillet around a large central panel of an all-over diaper of the same two tools, joined by ogival arches and gouges; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered and numbered in two compartments (dated at foot), a repeated ornament of the same tools in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt, g.e., stamp-signed on lower turn-in: "THE DOVES BINDERY 19 C-S 05", red morocco pull-off cases by Riviere (slight wear to cases). First Collected Edition. Tidcombe Doves 616 (Pattern 776).

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DOVES BINDERY. RUSKIN, JOHN. Arrows of the Chace. Orpington, Kent: George Allen 1880. 2 vols., 4to, 296 x 237 x 32mm. (11 5/8 x 9 3/8 x 1 1/4 [33mm. (1 5/16)]in.), olive brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet outer border, enclosing a middle border of single gilt fillet interspersed with solid dots and leaf (Tidcombe E1c), framing an inner border of double gilt fillet around a large central panel of an all-over diaper of the same two tools, joined by ogival arches and gouges; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered and numbered in two compartments (dated at foot), a repeated ornament of the same tools in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt, g.e., stamp-signed on lower turn-in: "THE DOVES BINDERY 19 C-S 05", red morocco pull-off cases by Riviere (slight wear to cases). First Collected Edition. Tidcombe Doves 616 (Pattern 776).

Provenance: Edith Rockefeller McCormick, bookplates (sale, AAA/Anderson, 23 February 1934, lot 161). (2)