VANISHED TOWERS AND CHIMES OF FLANDERS
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Record of the once majestic bell towers of Belgium, which were largely destroyed during World War I. Quarto: 211, [1] pp. with a frontispiece and 29 full-page plates, all color or black-and-white halftones, with brown-printed captioned tissue guards, after illustrations by George Wharton Edwards, as well as the decorated title page, a color halftone, and a decorated chapter head. In the publisher's olive vertical ribbed cloth binding, designed by George Wharton Edwards, with gilt-stamped broad ruled and ornamental bands, wrapping to the spine, with black, red, and gilt-stamped heraldic devices, gilt-stamped ornamental diaper panels, and ornamental line pointed oval frame for a black and gilt-stamped vignette of the Great Cloth Hall of Ypred, and gilt-stamped titling. Top edge gilt, with warm gray endpapers. A fine copy, accompanied by the original glassine wrapper and the publisher's two-part box. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Fine. Item #79043
Price: $350.00