Hugh Lane and his Pictures. Limited Edition (1932)
Book ID: 62388
Price: €395.00
Hugh Lane and his Pictures. Paris: Pegasus Press, 1932. Pp xiv 81, with 50 plates. Folio, half morocco, title stamped in gilt to second panel, Government Harp to fifth. Light spotting to endpapers, finger marks to corners of list of Plates and follow-on page, otherwise a nice bright copy.
Typed letter, signed, from Éamon De Válera pasted to front free endpaper.
Limited Edition of 400 Copies by Order of the Government of the Irish Free State. The paper is Mould-Made Rag, the plates were printed in Double-Tone Collotype. The binding was executed by Messrs. H. Sperling, Leipzig.
The conditional gift of Hugh Lane’s continental pictures now divided between the National Gallery Dublin and Tate Galleries, London.
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