28th Jan, 2020 10:00

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 49
 
Lot 49 - Asprey Bindings.- Dulac (Edmund, illustrator)...

Asprey Bindings.- Dulac (Edmund, illustrator) & Fitzgerald (Edward, translator) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, tipped in frontispiece, illustrated title, 19 tipped in plates, captioned tissue guards, crushed blue morocco, by Asprey, gilt tooled spine in compartments, boards ruled in gilt with corner pieces, large peacock to upper board centre, a.e.g., spine faded, marbled end papers, large 4to, Hodder & Stoughton, c.1934; Ludwig (Emil) & Paul (Eden & Cedar, translator) Napoleon, half red morocco, by Asprey, gilt tooled, a.e.g., 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, 1927; Eichenberg (Fritz, illustrator) & Bronte (Charlotte) Jane Eyre, wood engraved title, 17 plates and text illustrations, crushed black morocco, red morocco labels, spine and boards elaborately gilt, scrolling motifs to upper board outer border, 4to, Random House, New York, 1943; Venturi (Lionello) The Great Centuries of Painting the Sixteenth Century from Leonardo to El Greco, illustrations tipped in, crushed green morocco by Asprey, gilt spine in compartments, upper board outer border with scrolling motifs, corner pieces, a.e.g., spine faded, marbled end papers, large 4to, Switzerland, Skira, 1956; Churchill (Winston S.) The Island Race, text illustrations, red morocco by Asprey, spine and boards double ruled in gilt, a.e.g., folio, Cassel, 1964; Gould (Cecil) Leonardo the Artist and the Non-Artist, text illustrations, half brown morocco, by Asprey, spine gilt in compartments, slightly faded, folio, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975; Rackham (Arthur, illustrator) & Shakespeare (William) A Midsummer Night's Dream, illustrated frontispiece and title, text illustrations, 11 plates, half red crushed morocco, by Asprey, spine gilt with devices, ruled in gilt, a.e.g., original dust jacket bound in, boards slightly stained, folio, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977 (7)

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