Books and Manuscripts · Lotto 1547

[Doudelet, C.]. Beatrijs.

Antw., J.-E. Buschmann, 1901, (2),80p., col. woodcut ills. and bookdec. by E. PELLENS after C. DOUDELET, (fragile) green silk bookmarker, printed in 250 numb. copies (244 on Van Gelder), bound by an unidentified master binder in light brown calf w. blindst. fillet lines around sides, a knotted leather button in each corner, surrounding a sunk darker brown central panel with an embossed crowned laurel tree embellished with embossed festoons kept open by birds in flight, raised bands on spine, blindst. pattern of flowers within lozenges on backcover, brass clasps and catches on leather straps, all edges gilt and gauffered, 4to.

Lotto
1547
Stima
800 € – 1.000 €
Foto
2 foto

Condizioni

Final leaf (p.79/80) pasted to final free endpaper; a few rubbed spots on upper endpaper. Some small (partly vague) waterstains on both covers; upper joint starting.

Note

One of the most remarkable specimens of Art Nouveau bookart in the Low Countries in a splendid binding by an unidentified binder. We traced other copies bound in equally sumptuous bindings by i.a. DE SAMBLANX & J. WECKESSER. Cat. Art Nouveau België 727 and 729; Cat. Vlaamse bibliofiele uitgaven 1830-1980, no.21; Cat. De Boekband in België in de 19de en 20ste eeuw p.182-183. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXI.

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