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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES

Fine Bindings in Susan Dwight Bliss Collection

Morrell

Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
    George Engleheart, 1750-1829, Miniature Painter to George III, by George C. Williamson, and Henry L.D. Engleheart ... London, G. Bell & sons, 1902

Bound by Morrell in brown levant, elaborately decorated in a gold leaf-and-vine pattern with flowers of off-white inlaid levant; lettered in gold. The brown and green levant doublure has an elaborate floral and fillet border design in gold, facing a green moiré lining. Top edge gilt.

"Fifty-three copies ... have been printed for the authors, and issued with ten hand painted illustrations in each. This is copy no. 29."