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FABERGE -- SNOWMAN, A. Kenneth. The Art of Carl Fabergé. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1953. 8° (250 x 185mm). Colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, monochrome illustrations throughout. Contemporary green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the upper cover mounted with a mid-Victorian malachite-mounted gilt bronze plaque, with a central malachite boss raise on chased pierced foliage, the border with conforming mounts, the edge inscribed 'C Asprey, 166 Bond St, Exhibition 1851, Class 29, No. 50', the covers with green moiré silk doublures, gilt edges, the spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges (doublures browned near the edges, extremities lightly rubbed).
FABERGE -- SNOWMAN, A. Kenneth. The Art of Carl Fabergé. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1953. 8° (250 x 185mm). Colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, monochrome illustrations throughout. Contemporary green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the upper cover mounted with a mid-Victorian malachite-mounted gilt bronze plaque, with a central malachite boss raise on chased pierced foliage, the border with conforming mounts, the edge inscribed 'C Asprey, 166 Bond St, Exhibition 1851, Class 29, No. 50', the covers with green moiré silk doublures, gilt edges, the spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges (doublures browned near the edges, extremities lightly rubbed).

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FABERGE -- SNOWMAN, A. Kenneth. The Art of Carl Fabergé. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1953. 8° (250 x 185mm). Colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, monochrome illustrations throughout. Contemporary green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the upper cover mounted with a mid-Victorian malachite-mounted gilt bronze plaque, with a central malachite boss raise on chased pierced foliage, the border with conforming mounts, the edge inscribed 'C Asprey, 166 Bond St, Exhibition 1851, Class 29, No. 50', the covers with green moiré silk doublures, gilt edges, the spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges (doublures browned near the edges, extremities lightly rubbed).

IN A FINE BINDING PRESERVING A VICTORIAN GILT BRONZE AND MALACHITE PLAQUE BY ASPREY. Snowman's exhibitions of Fabergé at Wartski's were the most important in Britain in their day.

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