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THE GEORGE ELIOT PORTFOLIO, BEING A SERIES OF SIXTY JAPANESE PAPER PROOFS FROM ORIGINAL ETCHINGS AND PHOTO-ETCHINGS ILLUSTRATING GEORGE ELIOT'S WORKS
by [ELIOT, GEORGE]
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McMinnville, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Estes and Lauriat, 1888. No. 17 OF 50 COPIES of the Edition de Luxe, printed for the Continent. 435 x 300 mm. (17 1/4 x 11 3/4"). [2] leaves of text followed by plates.
Publisher's ivory cloth, upper cover with two bands of gilt knotwork on a red background, gilt lettering, smooth spine with gilt titling and publisher's device, blue printed endpapers, all edges gilt. 60 ETCHINGS AND PHOTO-ETCHINGS ON JAPON tipped onto lettered cardstock. Baker & Ross F8 (prospectus for deluxe edition). ◆A sprinkling of very faint brown spots to tail edge of upper board, a couple of plates with trivial wrinkles or creases, but AN EXTREMELY FINE COPY, quite clean, fresh, and bright inside and out, with excellent impressions of the plates.
This is an outstanding copy of an attractive portfolio containing a suite of plates created for a deluxe edition of the works of George Eliot produced by Estes and Lauriat. In addition to Eliot's eight novels, that edition included collected essays, poems, and a life of Eliot by George Willis Cooke. The plates here depict scenes from "Adam Bede" (six plates), "Mill on the Floss" (three), "Felix Holt, the Radical" (four), "Scenes of Clerical Life" (four), "Middlemarch" (seven), "Daniel Deronda" (seven), "Romola" (seven), "Silas Marner" (one), "Poems" (13), "Essays" (four), and Cooke's "Life" (four). While copies of this portfolio appear on the market from time to time, they are almost always soiled and worn. A pristine copy like the present one, with vellum nearly immaculate and without any splaying, is hard to find..
Publisher's ivory cloth, upper cover with two bands of gilt knotwork on a red background, gilt lettering, smooth spine with gilt titling and publisher's device, blue printed endpapers, all edges gilt. 60 ETCHINGS AND PHOTO-ETCHINGS ON JAPON tipped onto lettered cardstock. Baker & Ross F8 (prospectus for deluxe edition). ◆A sprinkling of very faint brown spots to tail edge of upper board, a couple of plates with trivial wrinkles or creases, but AN EXTREMELY FINE COPY, quite clean, fresh, and bright inside and out, with excellent impressions of the plates.
This is an outstanding copy of an attractive portfolio containing a suite of plates created for a deluxe edition of the works of George Eliot produced by Estes and Lauriat. In addition to Eliot's eight novels, that edition included collected essays, poems, and a life of Eliot by George Willis Cooke. The plates here depict scenes from "Adam Bede" (six plates), "Mill on the Floss" (three), "Felix Holt, the Radical" (four), "Scenes of Clerical Life" (four), "Middlemarch" (seven), "Daniel Deronda" (seven), "Romola" (seven), "Silas Marner" (one), "Poems" (13), "Essays" (four), and Cooke's "Life" (four). While copies of this portfolio appear on the market from time to time, they are almost always soiled and worn. A pristine copy like the present one, with vellum nearly immaculate and without any splaying, is hard to find..
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- Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ST15050
- Title
- THE GEORGE ELIOT PORTFOLIO, BEING A SERIES OF SIXTY JAPANESE PAPER PROOFS FROM ORIGINAL ETCHINGS AND PHOTO-ETCHINGS ILLUSTRATING GEORGE ELIOT'S WORKS
- Author
- [ELIOT, GEORGE]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- No. 17 OF 50 COPIES of the Edition de Luxe, printed for the Cont
- Publisher
- Estes and Lauriat
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1888
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
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McMinnville, Oregon
About Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books an Manuscripts was established in 1978 on a ping pong table in a basement in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the beginning, its founder was willing to sell a range of material, but over the years, the business has gravitated toward historical artifacts that are physically attractive in some way--illuminated material, fine bindings, books printed on vellum, fore-edge paintings, beautiful typography and paper, impressive illustration. Today, the company still sells a wide range of things, from (scruffy) ninth century leaves to biblical material from all periods to Wing and STC imprints to modern private press books to artists' bindings. While we are forgiving about condition when something is of considerable rarity, we always try to obtain the most attractive copies possible of whatever we offer for sale.
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