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Pourtales G. De

Chopin ou le Poete. Illustre de nombreuses photographies d'apres les documents de l'epoque. THE MAXWELL-SCOTT COPY IN QUARTER MOROCCO

Librairie Gallimard, Paris, 1929

241,50 €

Island Books

(Devon, Regno Unito)

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Dettagli

Anno di pubblicazione
1929
Autore
Pourtales G. De
Editori
Librairie Gallimard, Paris
Soggetto
fine art, music, piano, chopin, poland, biography, g. de pourtales, fine art, music, chopin, ou, le, poete
Lingue
Inglese

Descrizione

Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with half-title ('La Vie de Chopin'), with 42 fine plates (the majority portraits) on 39, one leaf (pp. 137-138) with small marginal repair (not affecting text); handsomely bound in contemporary marbled boards, green morocco back with five raised bands, second and fifth compartments lettered in gilt, gilt top uncut, marbled endpapers, sewn silk head- and tail-bands, silk marker, original pictorial wrappers in red and black preserved, backstrip lightly scuffed on lower panel, corners lightly chafed else a splendid, near fine copy in most attractive period binding. EDITION LIMITED TO AN UNSPECIFIED TOTAL OF INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON ALFA (THIS COPY No. 139). Published as no. 5 in Gallimard's famous series 'Galerie Pittoresque'. THE MAXWELL-SCOTT COPY WITH THE ORNATE, ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF MARIE LOUISE, LADY MAXWELL-SCOTT, ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN AND HER SMALLER CASTELLO DI ORVINIO BOOK-LABEL ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.