La Verrerie Antique, Description de la Collection Charvet

PARIS, 1879 A.D.

22 x 14 1/2 in. (6.06 kg, 55.9 x 37 cm).

Froehiner, W. - Published by Le Pecq, J.Charvet, Chateau du Donjon, 1879, cloth-covered boards with gold titling; copy number 77 of 150 from E.G. Muller, London; 139 pp, lithographic frontispiece and 34 hand-coloured plates (numbers 29 and 33 absent) and additional black and white illustrations within text; bookplate 'Ex Libris Ray Winfield Smith'; plates generally clean, plates XXX-XXXIV spotted and browned, text spotted and browned, marginal waterstain towards end of text. The Charvet Collection of Ancient Glass is now part of the ancient glass collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, 30 November 2016, no.119.
Private collection, London, UK.

CONDITION

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