The Gast Art Press, 1890, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Unstated, Illustrated By: Boston, F. J. and Gwin, Lydia Frances
Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Brief gift inscription on front free end paper. Green gilt stamped and illustrated cloth over boards, decorated end papers, illustrated with 12 water color facsimiles after Racinet by Lydia Frances Gwin, chromolithographed by The Gast Art Press, mono tint title page by F. J. Boston, pages not numbered, most of the chromolithographs have loose tissue guards. Covers soiled and stained, corners and spine ends bumped with wear, small circular stain on end papers up to the verso of the frontispiece (not affecting the frontispiece), many pages have fingers soil in margins, the loose tissue guards are often wrinkled, folded, and chipped, toned or soiled at edges. All the chromolithographs are present and in excellent condition with the exception of the frontispiece which has some finger soil in left blank margin and slightly into the image, one other image has a short line in bottom blank margin not affecting the image. Illustrator: Boston, F. J. and Gwin, Lydia Frances. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 12 oz. Category: Art & Design; Picture 2: Title page. Picture 3: Illustration. Picture 4: Frontispiece, note soil in left margin. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 011025.
Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Brief gift inscription on front free end paper. Green gilt stamped and illustrated cloth over boards, decorated end papers, illustrated with 12 water color facsimiles after Racinet by Lydia Frances Gwin, chromolithographed by The Gast Art Press, mono tint title page by F. J. Boston, pages not numbered, most of the chromolithographs have loose tissue guards. Covers soiled and stained, corners and spine ends bumped with wear, small circular stain on end papers up to the verso of the frontispiece (not affecting the frontispiece), many pages have fingers soil in margins, the loose tissue guards are often wrinkled, folded, and chipped, toned or soiled at edges. All the chromolithographs are present and in excellent condition with the exception of the frontispiece which has some finger soil in left blank margin and slightly into the image, one other image has a short line in bottom blank margin not affecting the image. Illustrator: Boston, F. J. and Gwin, Lydia Frances. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 12 oz. Category: Art & Design; Picture 2: Title page. Picture 3: Illustration. Picture 4: Frontispiece, note soil in left margin. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 011025.