Estimate: | £50 - £80 |
Hammer price: | £160 |
BINDING - Richard BAGOT (1860-1921). The Italian Lakes. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. 4to (220 x 160mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, coloured frontispiece and 67 coloured plates by Ella du Cane (some light spotting to the endpapers, half title and last few pages of index, some very light staining elsewhere, but the plates unblemished). FINELY BOUND in contemporary green half morocco and vellum gilt by The Times Book Club, the upper cover lettered in gilt with the Italian flag in red, white and green morocco onlays, the spine with highly elaborate foliate decoration in four compartments and lettered in two, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: Edith Alexander (bookplate). FIRST EDITION.