The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue Of The Industry Of All Nations 1851 [Fine Exhibition Binding]

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Folio, Fantastic Exhibition binding by H. Spooner. Ornate gilt decorated Morocco leather and colored gauffered edges. An absolutely stunning volume, rebound in sumptuous leather, with fabulously ornate gilt fleur-de-lys design to front and rear, with black morocco panel and oval insert. One of a kind. Black leather title labels and gilt detail to spine. Ornate colored gauffering to all edges. The inside boards have wonderful leather panelled edges with silk inset. The inside rear leather panel has binders detail and information (Bound by H. SPOONER of Spain for the TRINIDAD INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION for 1854). There are a couple of chips and scuffs to rear board and a repaired patch to top corner of black morocco panel. Lightly scuffed, else still a handsome volume. Internally there is leather panel with black patterned silk endpapers and black patterned silk free endpapers. The inside front endpapers are splitting to bottom edge and there is a small chip to top of inside rear endpapers. The Art Journal catalog of the Great Exhibition of 1851 provides a contemporary illustrated record of the furniture, glassware, porcelain, ornamental metalwork, fabrics and sculpture exhibited in 1851, with an accompanying descriptive text and a series of essays on more general aspects of the exhibition. N° de ref. del artículo 025572

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