KUNZ, George Frederick & Charles Hugh STEVENSON. The Book of the Pearl. The History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems, New York: The Century Co., 1908, 4to, FIRST EDITION, coloured frontispiece and 99 plates including 17 coloured and one engraved (library stamps to pastedown and endpaper), original decorated cloth gilt (spine rather faded and lightly rubbed, rear inner hinge split). [Sinkankas 3690]

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KUNZ, George Frederick & Charles Hugh STEVENSON. The Book of the Pearl. The History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems, New York: The Century Co., 1908, 4to, FIRST EDITION, coloured frontispiece and 99 plates including 17 coloured and one engraved (library stamps to pastedown and endpaper), original decorated cloth gilt (spine rather faded and lightly rubbed, rear inner hinge split). [Sinkankas 3690]

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"This beautiful example of modern book design...is prized not only for the enormous amount of reliable information that it contains, indeed still unmatched in any work since, but also for the large number of high quality illlustrations in color and in black-and-white." (Sinkankas)

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