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BINDING BY AURIFEX. DANTE ALIGHIERI. La divina commedia. I (more published). London (G. Pickering) 1822.

Miniature book about 80x45 mm. (6), 1-191, (1 blank) pp. Engraved frontispiece.
Brown full morocco, richly gilt with floral ornaments, inlays in red, middle of covers with inlay in green with gilt decoration, gilt inner frames, gilt edges of covers, gilt spine, gilt edges. (Signed E. S. Aurifex on inside of upper cover). Some minor foxing.

Edward Sullivan (Aurifex, 1851-1937) considered himself a ´finisher´ and signed himself Aurifex, meaning worker in gold. He would order plain leather bindings and decorate them to his individual style.The rubbings of his bindings are now in the Huntington Library.

Auktionsnummer:

6074

Datum:

2016-06-21

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