LION CACHET, C.A. – PIT, A. a.o.. George Hendrik... Lot n° 10020

Amsterdam, Scheltema en Holkema’s Boekhandel (K. Groesbeek & Paul Nijhoff), [ca. 1904], [6(of 8)],178,[1] pp. With hélio-engraved frontisp.-portrait (of G.H. Breitner) & num. hélio-engraved (full-p.) ills. (after paintings & watercolours by G.H. Breitner). Large folio (ca. 49,5 x 40 cm.), orig. dec. gilt blind-stamped FULL CALF (des. by C.A. LION CACHET), upper cover with gilt monogram "GHB" surrounded by 3 coats-of-arms (of Rotterdam, Amsterdam & The Hague), top edge gilt. [LION CACHET, C.A.] – PIT, A. [a.o.]. George Hendrik Breitner. Indrukken en biographische aanteekeningen [..] met 90 photogravures naar zijne werken. ¶ Sumptuous book-production of an early 20th-cent. monograph on the Dutch artist George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) printed on handmade paper by “Mouton & Co.” (’s-Gravenhage), the hélio-engravings printed by “Meisenbach Riffarth & Co.” (Berlin) & bound in a full calf binding designed by the Dutch artist Carel Adolph Lion Cachet (1864-1945). – A few small defects (binding partly rubbed/ worn along extremities, 1 blank preliminary leaf missing), but nevertheless an impressive book-binding in an acceptable condition.