Histoire de la gravure en Italie, en Espagne, en Allemagne : dans les Pays-Bas, en Angleterre et en France ; suivie d'indications pour former une collection d'estampes / par Georges Duplessis ... Contenant 73 reproductions de gravures anciennes exécutées pour la plupart par le procédé de M. Amand Durand.

Accession number: 
PML 54627
Author: 
Duplessis, Georges, 1834-1899.
Published: 
Paris : Hachette et cie, 1880.
Credit: 
Gift of the Fellows, 1965.
Description: 
528 p. : ill., plates ; 29 cm
Notes: 

Morgan copy no. 6 of 10 copies printed on papier du Japon.

Binding: 
19th-century English blue-green morocco, with inlaid red and black strapwork, gold tooled in 16th-century design, by Zaehnsdorf, with tooling by Louis Hagué. Silk brocade pastedowns and endleaves. Morgan copy with a letter laid-in from H.D. Lyons (bookseller) confirming that Hagué had worked as a finisher at Zaehnsdorf and was responsible for sevral bindings of a "neo-Grolieresque" design.
Provenance: 
James Anderson Rose, armorial bookplate; and a note that the book was owned by Edward Stanley, 15th earl of Derby in 1892.
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Binding Collection
Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books