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Les Lettres Et Les Arts, Revue Illustree. GOOGLE TRANSLATION: Letters And The Arts, Illustrated Review. PUBLICATION DATES: 1886, 1887

Paris New York

Date
1886
Place
Paris New York
Publisher
Boussod, Valadon Et Co. and Charles Scribner's Sons
Language
French
Binding
3/4 leather
Format
Folio (10.25"x 13") Green/tan leather with gilt rule edges over marble boards. The spines, pleasantly sunned to a even tan, have 5 gilt decorated, raised compartments with gilt title in second compartment, gilt volnumber and year in fourth. Other compartments with large centered gilt device with gilt rule frames. Covers bumped and rubbed to extremeties. Covers with sunning to tan. marble endpapers, top edge gilt, others deckled. Hand colored full page engravings. Many illustrations in text and full page on heavy paper. This luxuriant art journal was only produced for four years, these are the first two years, complete in every aspect with beautiful plates and illustrations.
Category
Architecture, Art & Craft
Record
S.I.1544

Les Lettres Et Les Arts, Revue Illustree. Signed Binding by H. Blackwell. Translated from French: Letters And The Arts, Illustrated Review. This luxuriant art journal was only produced for four years, these are the first two years, complete in every aspect with beautiful plates and illustrations.

Author(s): Various

Folio(10.25"x 13") 1866, 67. Various. Paris, New York: Boussod, Valadon Et Co. and Charles Scribner's Sons. Three quarter green leather with generous corners, single gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. The spines of all volumes are pleasantly sunned to an even tan (see pic). Spines have five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to gilt framed second compartment, gilt vol#/year to gilt framed fourth compartment, a centered gilt arabesque device to each other gilt framed compartment creating a beautiful decorative spine. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt others deckled. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, minor scuffs to some leather, superficial scratch to rear cover of 1886 vol. III. Sunning of spine extends to covers at edges, with greatest fade to front cover of 1886 vol. IV (see pic). Each volumes comprises hand colored full page engravings, many illustrations in text and on full page on heavy paper. Signed binding by H. Blackwell. This luxuriant art journal was only produced for four years, these are the first two years, complete in every aspect with beautiful plates and illustrations.

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