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[BINDING-- RIVIERE & SON, binder]. CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare (1478-1529). The Book of the Courtier. New York: The De Vinne Press for Charles Scribner and Sons, 1901.
4o (276 x 202 mm). Numerous illustrations. (Small dampstain on the lower corner of some pages.) Tan morocco gilt with elaborate maroon, green, olive, teal and lighter tan onlays in a floral and leaf pattern with a crown, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two, the remaining with tan and maroon onlays and gilt, doublures with central design accented with crowns with teal, plum, maroon and gold onlays gilt, borders in green, teal and tan, in gilt and blind, plum silk endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light rubbing at foot of spines).
LIMITED EDITION, number 191 of 500 copies, printed by The De Vinne Press.
4o (276 x 202 mm). Numerous illustrations. (Small dampstain on the lower corner of some pages.) Tan morocco gilt with elaborate maroon, green, olive, teal and lighter tan onlays in a floral and leaf pattern with a crown, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two, the remaining with tan and maroon onlays and gilt, doublures with central design accented with crowns with teal, plum, maroon and gold onlays gilt, borders in green, teal and tan, in gilt and blind, plum silk endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light rubbing at foot of spines).
LIMITED EDITION, number 191 of 500 copies, printed by The De Vinne Press.