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Pierpont Morgan. - Ward, T. Humphry and Roberts, W.

Pictures in the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan at Princes Gate & Dover House London. With an Introduction by T. Humphry Ward and Biographical and Descriptive Notes by W. Roberts. I: English School. II: Dutch & Flemish, French, Italian Spanish. III: Modern Schools.

London, Privately Printed 1907

55.5 x 46.3 cm. 3 volumes. 363 pages. With 3 color frontispieces and 97 collotype plates. Dark blue original morocco bindings on 5 ribs with spine title, rich spine gilt, triple, magnificent cover borders with gilt arabesques, endpapers lined in midnight-blue moiré silk, richly gilt inner edges, hand-embroidered capitals, and gilt head edges. (Signed: Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1907). - The famous catalog of the Pierpont Morgan collection of paintings. No more than 100 copies luxuriously printed for private use. Probably the most beautiful and elaborate publication ever granted to a painting collection. A magnificent copy in dark blue original morocco bindings.

6,800,- €

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