Description:
No Dust JacketNo Slipcase
Book: Blemishes - Small discoloration on the front board (photo). Shelf rub on the spine top (photo). Small puncture on backboard gutter (photo). The remainder of this special edition copy of this vintage is in remarkable condition.
Has 16 color full-page lithographs (photo) by Federico Castellon, drawn on the stones by him and printed under his supervision at the Atelier of Edmund and Jacques Desjobert in Paris.
String binding and heavy rough cut paper, replicating the original publication in 1842. A book by a contemporary publisher's first effort that was built to last and endure.
The sturdy boards are brown linen backed with black cloth with gilt seam (photo). The spine title is also gilt encased in gilt double border (photo), spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. No. 223/500 copies, designed by Bert Clarke, printed by Clarke and Way in New York.
Signed by the artist at the colophon (photo) .