Estimate: | £700 - £1,000 |
Hammer price: | £500 |
CHINESE IVORIES - Sydney Edward LUCAS ([dates unknown], editor). The Catalogue of Sassoon Chinese Ivories. London: Country Life Limited, 1950. 3 volumes, large 4to (380 x 280mm). Half titles, coloured frontispiece, titles printed in red and black, and 224 monochrome plates. FINELY BOUND in original half vellum and green buckram, the upper covers with Chinese characters stamped in gilt, the spines lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, without the slipcases. Provenance: Han-Shan Tang Ltd. (bookseller's label on rear pastedown of the first vol.). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 195 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY VICTOR SASSOON AND SYDNEY EDWARD LUCAS. (3)