Author: LAMB Charles
Title: The Essays of Elia and Eliana. IN SPLENDID UPPINGHAM PRIZE BINDING BY ZAEHNSDORF
Description: Bell & Sons,, 1899. 8vo., with engraved portrait frontispiece; handsomely bound in full light tan calf BY ZAEHNSDORF, boards with double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in gilt, upper board with Uppingham crest blocked in gilt, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and fourth compartments with green and red leather labels ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt to an art nouveau floral design, gilt dentelles, gilt doublures, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, silk headbands, a splendid example of a notable prize binding. The frontispiece is by Finden after Wageman.

Keywords: literature, lamb, charles lamb, elia, uppingham, uppingham school, zaehnsdorf, fine bindings


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