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LOT 1087
Herbert C. Dent - Piqué: A Beautiful Minor Art
1923 A.D.
8 5/8 x 11 1/4 in. (585 grams, 22 x 28.5 cm).
London, 1923, hardback with cloth covers, 25 pp, 36 monochrome plates; published by The Connoisseur collector magazine; bookplate to inner front of James Unitt Parkes. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
Footnotes
James Unitt Parkes (ca 1846- d.1913) was a jeweller, silver merchant and goldsmith of J. Parkes & Co. London.
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