The Lady with the Camellias (1887 Limited Edition)

Description: Condition Continued: The juncture between the marbled rear inside cover and rear end paper is very solid. Both covers, in fact, are very solidly bound. You can pull at each from the side and there is no give at all.The interior of the book is in very nice condition. 'Each chapter has for its heading a drawing by Lynch, made into a heliogravure by Dumont and printed in various colours.' Ten of the illustrations (the ones that are not on the first page of each chapter) have tissue guards protecting them. Every tissue guard is present and bound in. One illustration is cleanly detached but bound with its tissue guard. I turned over all the pages to make sure that all of the illustrations referenced on the Table of Contents and Illustrations page were present. They all are. They are also all in excellent condition, very clean, no wear. Most of the ten tissue guards have a little bit of wear. Some a small loss. Others have some creasing. But I would describe them as being in better condition than what you would expect from a book published in 1887. They definitely did an excellent job of protecting the illustrations. Actually, all of the pages are in very nice condition. There is very little soiling. I think I saw only twospots that were slightly conspicuous, and they were still fairly small and at the blank margin of the page. Otherwise, you are talking about only a very occasional speck, or light fingerprint- looking spot. On the second half-title page (see photo) just off the top edge, there is a very light sliver of an outline of what looks like a water stain, but I didn't see any other page, including the one before and after it, with any kind of a water stain, and as you can see it's very inconspicuous. I didn't find any foxing on any page in the book. I don't recall seeing any tears. There is very little by way of creasing. The rough-cut page edges are much, much more often smooth than otherwise. I saw one that was produced a little long and has a slight bit of wear. I saw two instances of a teeny tiny loss at a middle edge. The second blank end paper has a small, thin place where you can see there was an erasure. At the bottom of page 38 I found what was erased, a faded blue stamp of the previous owner Percy Fridenberg, M.D. I'm leaving it there, but very clearly it can be erased. His NY Times obituary informs that he was a past president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. More importantly, he wrote the lyrics to the Columbia College (University now): alma mater song, 'Sans Souci'. There are no other markings in the book. There are no attachments. And there is no writing of any kind to be found anywhere. Published for the Maison Quantin, Paris, 1887, London. Half-Binding (Leather spine and corners). This is a very rare Limited Edition. I couldn't find another on any of the book sites. Mine is No. 375 of 550 numbered copies 'for England and America.' The title page states that this is 'A New Translation with A New Preface By The Author. Forty Photogravures and Etchings by Albert Lynch.' The libretto of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata was based on The Lady with the Camellias.

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