The Kingdom of the Pearl.
by DULAC, Edmund (illus.); ROSENTHAL, Léonard
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Brentano's,, [1925]. Limited US edition, number 559 of 675 copies. Léonard Rosenthal was a famed Parisian jeweller who personally commissioned Dulac's illustrations; they first appeared in a French edition in 1920. As noted by Dulac's bibliographer, "[Dulac's] plates, truly genius, do much to bring a fanciful touch to the otherwise stark exposition of a treatise on pearls... There is whimsy, too, in the personalities imparted to the various species of marine life that are worked into the designs. Dulac had always enjoyed ornamenting the total book in which his plates appeared, producing end papers, title page designs, covers, etc. But here he outdid himself." Large quarto. Original quarter cloth and grey boards, spine lettered and with pictorial decoration in gilt, front cover with pictorial decoration and printed label, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and nine colour plates with printed tissue-guards. Corners and lower extremities worn, occasional light foxing; a very good copy. Hughey 54e.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 157238
- Title
- The Kingdom of the Pearl.
- Author
- DULAC, Edmund (illus.); ROSENTHAL, Léonard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Brentano's,
- Date Published
- [1925]
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...