Arts and Crafts Binding Le livre d'or de J.-F. Millet. Par un ancien ami, Paris: A. Ferroud, E. Bénézit-Constant, [1891]. 4to (333 x 248 mm), near-contemporary tan morocco by the Marygold Bindery (dated 1924 on rear turn-in), overall design of massed leaves, interlacing fillets and interstitial dots in blind, corners of central panels with red morocco onlays gilt-tooled with sunburst design, pink morocco doublures with similar sunburst designs gilt to corners, hand-printed endpapers, edges untrimmed, half-title, 9 etched plates including frontispiece, etched vignettes to title-page and in text, extra-illustrated with a lithograph and 2 woodcuts after Millet (each mounted to an initial blank with manuscript caption in French mounted opposite), original wrappers bound in at rear, light staining to pp. 111-12. Together with 2 others (Cresset Press, The Shepheards Calendar, 1930, one of 350 copies on hand-made paper, and John Evelyn Memoirs, 1827, 5 volumes, red dark half morocco for Sotheran's, these not collated) (qty: 7) First edition, one of 500 copies on hand-made Holland paper, this copy inscribed on the limitation page to 'Monsieur Vicaire, bien sincère hommage de l'editeur'; there were also 50 copies on japon. The Marygold Bindery was established by Sangorski and Sutcliffe trainee Rosamund Philpott in Cambridge c.1904, operating until 1932.
Arts and Crafts Binding Le livre d'or de J.-F. Millet. Par un ancien ami, Paris: A. Ferroud, E. Bénézit-Constant, [1891]. 4to (333 x 248 mm), near-contemporary tan morocco by the Marygold Bindery (dated 1924 on rear turn-in), overall design of massed leaves, interlacing fillets and interstitial dots in blind, corners of central panels with red morocco onlays gilt-tooled with sunburst design, pink morocco doublures with similar sunburst designs gilt to corners, hand-printed endpapers, edges untrimmed, half-title, 9 etched plates including frontispiece, etched vignettes to title-page and in text, extra-illustrated with a lithograph and 2 woodcuts after Millet (each mounted to an initial blank with manuscript caption in French mounted opposite), original wrappers bound in at rear, light staining to pp. 111-12. Together with 2 others (Cresset Press, The Shepheards Calendar, 1930, one of 350 copies on hand-made paper, and John Evelyn Memoirs, 1827, 5 volumes, red dark half morocco for Sotheran's, these not collated) (qty: 7) First edition, one of 500 copies on hand-made Holland paper, this copy inscribed on the limitation page to 'Monsieur Vicaire, bien sincère hommage de l'editeur'; there were also 50 copies on japon. The Marygold Bindery was established by Sangorski and Sutcliffe trainee Rosamund Philpott in Cambridge c.1904, operating until 1932.
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