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L. Lemercier de Neuville, Théatre des Pupazzi (Lyon, 1876).
Dimension: 21.8 cm.
Provenance: Sotheby’s April 1982, lot no. 542. Bought by the bookseller R. Lyon for £750. This book was part of a collection bequeathed by Edward Sullivan to Mrs. Vera Rattigan (née Houston), his god-daughter, and then, by descent, to the 1982 seller.
Binding: Green morocco decorated by Sullivan in the manner of a French eighteenth-century reliure mosaïquée. The upper cover with an elaborate flowering plant of brown, yellow, red and blue onlays with an outer gold tooled floral border and an inner border of a double fillet and chain roll. The lower cover with an onlaid ‘S’ in red surrounded with floral tools. Signed ‘E.S. AURIFEX’ on the lower cover.
Citation:
L. Lemercier de Neuville, Théatre des Pupazzi (Lyon, 1876).,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed March 28, 2024,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/333