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First edition. Limited edition, copy number 1 of 222 copies on "Paper Verge"; red borders and every line ruled in red. A fine French binding once owned and commissioned by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), art connoisseur and philanthropist. Avery was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, He also endowed and built the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia College in 1891 and was the first President of the Grolier Club. Full crushed old rose-colored levant, gold-tooled by Charles Meunier (1865-1940), with his gilt stamp: Ch. Meunier. Sides without borders have the monogram SPA [S.P.Avery] in each corner. Obverse center-piece formed by a curved branch of white inlaid roses, with buds and leaves tooled in gold, on the right; on the left, of thistles tooled in black and gold; branches twined at the bottom by a large serpent bearing young; where the stems cross a fools head is inlaid in white with cap and collar inlaid in green, gold-tooled; at the top crossing, a flaming torch in black and gold; from this is suspended an irregular shaped shield inlaid in black, charged with the title and three tears or with a deaths-head inlaid in white as a crest. On reverse a lozenge formed of floriated leafy branches with cupid's torch and weapons, a fool's mace and musical instruments at the corners, tooled in gold, encloses a circle inlaid in black passing through four gray rings, and loosely wound with a dotted line; within, two billing doves, the six back panels bear Mr. Avery's monogram; the bands blind lined, doublures of blue crushed levant within a narrow engrailed fillet. Border of monograms between two-line plain fillets, inner corners of panel filled with foliated rose-branches bearing a single rose inlaid; sides connected by double dotted lines; all richly gold-tooled. Centerpiece a snake with young swallowing another; their tails interlocked with a shield inlaid in black, charged with monogram SPA inlaid in green, red and white. Linings of flowered striped silk brocade; marbled end-papers; morocco joints; gold edges. A fine copy in a rose-colored solander case with some fading to the side from the book it was shelved next to. See. "Catalogue Raisonnee Works on Bookbinding Practical and Historical Examples of Bookbinding's of the XVIth to XIXth Centuries from the Collection of Samuel Putnam Avery A. M. exhibited at Columbia University Library MDCCCCIII [1903]". Number 216 at p. 91 & 92. See also the auction catalog titled " Library of Samuel Putnam Avery to be sold at Anderson Gallerys Nov. 10, 11, & 12, 1919". French text. Avery's 1893 C. W. Sherborn engraved bookplate inserted. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1041818543
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