TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, bindery. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Sonnets. Illuminated by Ross Turner. [New Rochelle]: George D. Sproul, 1901. PRINTED ON VELLUM and illuminated throughout in gold and colors, with elaborate borders and numerous large initials, text on rectos only. 2 volumes, 4to, green morocco elaborately gilt, each cover with morocco onlays in red, purple, brown and white in various floral designs, central octagonal white pigskin panel, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered longitudinally, g.e.; doublures of green morocco, gilt initials "WS" in corners, decoratively tooled stylized floral border, various colored morocco onlays surrounding a central octagonal pigskin panel with painted flower on gilt background turn-ins stamp-signed by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, original padded satin-lined white watered silk boxes, defective. LIMITED "SAINT DUNSTAN" EDITION, number 23 of 30 sets specially illuminated throughout by Ross Turner for Herman A. Metz. (2)
TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, bindery. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Sonnets. Illuminated by Ross Turner. [New Rochelle]: George D. Sproul, 1901. PRINTED ON VELLUM and illuminated throughout in gold and colors, with elaborate borders and numerous large initials, text on rectos only. 2 volumes, 4to, green morocco elaborately gilt, each cover with morocco onlays in red, purple, brown and white in various floral designs, central octagonal white pigskin panel, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered longitudinally, g.e.; doublures of green morocco, gilt initials "WS" in corners, decoratively tooled stylized floral border, various colored morocco onlays surrounding a central octagonal pigskin panel with painted flower on gilt background turn-ins stamp-signed by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, original padded satin-lined white watered silk boxes, defective. LIMITED "SAINT DUNSTAN" EDITION, number 23 of 30 sets specially illuminated throughout by Ross Turner for Herman A. Metz. (2)
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