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Lot 587

[MOSHER, Thomas Bird (1852?1923)]. ?? LANG, Andrew (1844?19...

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[MOSHER, Thomas Bird (1852?1923)]. ?? LANG, Andrew (1844?1912). Ballads & Lyrics of Old France? Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1898. Tall 12mo. Numerous hand?colored decorations in text. Full crushed red levant with single gilt fillet border, paneled with gilt tooled fleuron ornaments within 2 gilt fillet frames, 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, 3 compartments with gilt tooled fleuron ornaments, gilt?lettering in remainder, top edge gilt, crushed blue morocco doublures with a fleuron gilt centerpiece with petals inlaid with red morocco within numerous gilt fillets, gilt stamp?signed by Lucien Broca; burgundy straight?grain morocco slipcase (gilt initialed ?B.A.?). Provenance: F.C. Hubbard (bookplate). One of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper published for Mosher?s Old World Series which reprinted ?acknowledged masters of literature?.