Name/Title
The Girl with the Golden Eyes / Honoré de BalzacEntry/Object ID
2015.7.352Description
146 p., [8] leaves of plates.
Art deco plates, some in full color, with tissue guards in a unique spider web pattern.
Mylar covered dust jacket.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
1920s, SubscriptionBook Details
Author
Honoré de BalzacIllustrator
Donald DentonEdition
FirstPublisher
Peacock PressPlace Published
City
ChicagoState/Province
IllinoisCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1928Printer
Peacock PressBinding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Art DecoBinding Notes
Elaborately decorated black cloth boards with black cloth overlay to front and rear in a gilt shell repeating motif. Gilt decoration and title to spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled edge heavy stock.Notes
Privately Printed and Designed at The Sign of the Peacock. August 1928.Exhibition
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