FERDINANDO POGLIANI (1832-1899) - BINDER
Comitato Promotore Fra Gli Studenti Degli Istituti Superiori di Milano. [Milan, late 19th-century]
Title printed in red and black, half-titles on interleaved tissue guards and 121 leaves of signatures in manuscript within full printed borders with arabesque decoration on a gold ground after Giuseppe Pogliani (occasional very light unobtrusive spotting). PRESENTATION BINDING FOR WILLIAM GLADSTONE, with leather-backed boards, the ebonised and ivory cruciform upper cover centered with oval cartouche inscribed 'A William Gladstone Gli Studenti Italiani' surrounded by putti, floral and foliate shaped cornerpieces with similar decoration at intervals, two horizontal bands with inlaid scrolling foliage with reversed shape cartouches similarly decorated, stiff-leaf border, signed lower left 'Ferd. Pogliani Ebanista Milan', the lower cover of ebonised ground inlaid with ivory with central shaped cartouche and foliate cornerpieces, filigree metal clasps and catches, red silk liners, gilt edges (cracks and some losses of ivory to borders and lower cover, one clasp lacking, the other bent, liners frayed at edges).
Folio (525 x 415mm)
FERDINANDO POGLIANI (1832-1899) - BINDER
Comitato Promotore Fra Gli Studenti Degli Istituti Superiori di Milano. [Milan, late 19th-century]
Title printed in red and black, half-titles on interleaved tissue guards and 121 leaves of signatures in manuscript within full printed borders with arabesque decoration on a gold ground after Giuseppe Pogliani (occasional very light unobtrusive spotting). PRESENTATION BINDING FOR WILLIAM GLADSTONE, with leather-backed boards, the ebonised and ivory cruciform upper cover centered with oval cartouche inscribed 'A William Gladstone Gli Studenti Italiani' surrounded by putti, floral and foliate shaped cornerpieces with similar decoration at intervals, two horizontal bands with inlaid scrolling foliage with reversed shape cartouches similarly decorated, stiff-leaf border, signed lower left 'Ferd. Pogliani Ebanista Milan', the lower cover of ebonised ground inlaid with ivory with central shaped cartouche and foliate cornerpieces, filigree metal clasps and catches, red silk liners, gilt edges (cracks and some losses of ivory to borders and lower cover, one clasp lacking, the other bent, liners frayed at edges).
Folio (525 x 415mm)
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