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HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel

Parables of Our Lord
London
Longmans
-1846
€180 - €260

Small 8vo, Chromolithograph title-page and 31 chromolithographed pages, with text, symbolic borders, miniatures and initials printed in gold, black, and colors, 2 page printed explanation and advertising leaf. Publisher's papier-maché boards, covered with black plaster, molded to appear like a Gothic carved wood binding, with gilt stamped leather back. Although as inevitable with the gutta-percha gluing, the leaves have become detached, bottom of the spine slightly damaged, all edges gilt

"Ref. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 231 Ref. McLean, Bindings in Paper, pp.51 & 53. '... one of the first of the so-called ""papier-maché"" bindings, contrived to look like carved ebony ... the result was splendidly gothic and impressive ...'"