Vélin

réf. 10997 — NP. ND. . FINE LARGE DECORATIVE VELLUM BINDING. Folio. 14.8 x 12.8 inches. A collection of 211 items of late 19th and early 20th century cards and ephemera including 26 rare 3-D movable lift-up Valentines and Christmas cards each mounted onto a white stiff card page and with multiple pieces of ephemera attached around the page. Attractive late nineteenth century binding of full white vellum. Spine with decorative gilt designs within double gilt ruled lines in compartments. Boards with triple gilt ruled borders to the very edges and elaborate dark brown morocco panels with highly decorative gilt tooling. A thin blue ink line inside and out of the brown panels. Four gilt corner pieces inside the middle panel. Red painted initials with gilt borders to the centre of the front panel. Board edges and turn-ins with decorative gilt rolls. Green and white patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. Inner hinges reinforced with buff cloth strip. A little marking and a couple of small splits to the binding but overall a fine and attractive vellum binding housing an interesting collection of rare unusual and highly decorative items. NP. ND. hardcover