Books and Manuscripts · Lotto 2741
[Bindings]. Humphreys, H.N. Papier-maché binding,
high-relief black papier-maché hleather binding, both covers identically richly decorated in medievalesque style, imitative of carved ebony, a.e.g., 16,5x12 cm., kept in modern protective board dropback box. - ON: Humphreys, H.N. Parables of the Lord. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, n.d. (±1880), 32,II (index)p., entirely chromolithographed in colours and gold (except for the index) by H.N. HUMPHREYS.
- Lotto
- 2741
- Sezione
- OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Stima
- 300 € – 500 €
- Foto
- 2 foto
Condizioni
Final index pages foxed. Rebacked with plain black morocco and new endpapers. Otherwise very fine.
Note
Ball, Victorian publishers' bindings, p.149; McLean, Victorian book design and colour printing, p.71f: "The binding of one of his 1847 books, Parables of Our Lord, was even more unusual [than his earlier books]. It was the first of his so-called 'papier-maché' bindings, contrived to look like carved ebony (...). They were cast in a black plaster composition, over papier-maché, often reinforced with metal. The result was splendidly gothic and impressive. Such books (...) could only lie and be admired on tasselled piano-covers or drawing-room table-cloths. (...) with a colophon on the last page which reads: "In designing the ornaments to the sacred parables contained in this volume the illuminator has sought to render them in each instance appropriate" (...). There is an originality and power in the illuminations entirely lacking in Owne Jones's work.". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
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