Ollier

1887 · rif. 362 — New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1887. Publisher's fine cloth. Very Good. Gustave Dore. Fantastic compilation of Gustav Dore's 80 greatest engravings into one volume drawing from The Dore Bible Milton Dante's Inferno Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso Fontaine's Fables Fairy Realm Don Quixote and more. Includes Memoir of Dore and descriptive letterpress for the subject matter of each plate. Condition report: Very Good antiquarian condition. Complete. Plates are NEAR FINE TO FINE BOOK INFO Published in 1887 by Cassell Publishing Company in New York. Compilation of plates from previously published works with new text from Edmund Ollier. Bound in its original fine dark brown publisher's cloth. Front cover and spine with gilt and black decoration. All edges gilt. Large quarto 12" x 9.5". Collated and complete: unpaginated 80 plates including frontispiece; a few decorated initials. CONDITION REPORT Very Good. Exterior and binding: Joints and hinges holding firm boards slightly loose tight pages bumped corners. Colorful cloth. Front cover gilt work in very good shape. Tarnishing to gilt edges. Some rubbing to boards and edges. Spine and its gilt work sun-darkened. Interior: Toning to page margins and sometimes a bit deeper. Very light offsetting from plates. Some marginal finger smudges. Plate artwork in FINE condition overall. A few marginal tears and bent corners. No foxing scarce to not find this! writing ex libris marks or bookplates. All in all a higher-grade copy for this Dore illustrated title in much nicer condition than normally found. Cassell Publishing Company unknown