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THE JAMES DE ROTHSCHILD BEQUEST AT WADDESON MANOR: PRINTED BOOKS AND BOOKBINDING: Two Volume Set Hardcover - 2013
by Barber, Giles
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- Title THE JAMES DE ROTHSCHILD BEQUEST AT WADDESON MANOR: PRINTED BOOKS AND BOOKBINDING: Two Volume Set
- Author Barber, Giles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 1162
- Language ENG
- Publisher Paul Holberton Publishing, Aylesbury
- Date 2013
- ISBN 9780954731083
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Printed Books and Bookbindings: The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor (2 Volume Set)
by Barber, Giles
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- 1st Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780954731083 / 0954731085
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Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK: The Rothschild Foundation, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. This is the hardback edition. Complete in 2 volumes. Printed and bound by Die Keure, Belgium. 12 x 9 inches. Unbumped spine heads and tails, and sharp corners. Text blocks firmly bound in. Navy blue buckram hardboards with gilt emblems to the front boards and lettering on the spines. A total of 1162 numbered pages; note that there is moderate page waviness to the page tops of Vol. I. Numerous BW illustrations and full-page color plates. Handsome pictorial dust jackets, unclipped. An exceptionally clean and attractive set. Vol. I is either unread or very gently read. Vol. II is still in the original shrinkwrap and thus pristine. No remainder marks. All in all a Near Fine set of 2 volumes, in Fine dust jackets. 14 lbs. 3 oz. weight. From the multi-volume series, The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor, and consisting of 12 titles.
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The James de Rothschild Bequest at Waddeson Manor: Printed Books and Bookbinding. Vol. I - II
by Barber, Giles
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780954731083 / 0954731085
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Waddeson Manor: The Rothschild Foundation, 2013 2 volumes 4to (31 cm), 520, [64] pp; [6] pp, PP. 521-1161. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). From the blurb: "The outstanding collection of late 17th- and 18th-century books, together with their sumptuous bindings, built up by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the last 20 years of the 19th century, match his other extraordinary collections (covered by earlier catalogues in the series), and is among the best of its kind outside Paris. This catalogue reveals for the first time the riches of his book collection. The 790 books reflect Baron Ferdinand’s interests as a refined connoisseur and amateur historian. Not interested in first editions or rare texts, he collected instead books with a distinguished provenance, those with magnificent bindings and ones illustrated by celebrated artists. Many of these also related to his interest in the history of this period, documenting social culture, costume, travel, architecture and,…
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