George C. Williamson

A sumptuously produced catalogue featuring the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan; limited edition, number 8 of 20 deluxe copies printed on vellum, and with the extra hand-colored suite of prints.

• George Charles Williamson (English).
• London: Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1910.
• Folio. 
• 94 photogravure plates, 47 plates with an extra suite of proofs fully hand-colored and heightened in gold and silver leaf, each within a hand-drawn gold leaf border, lettered tissue guards.
• Printed on vellum, title printed in red and black, lacking the silk markers with brass endpieces.
• Original dark green crushed morocco, the upper cover with large inlaid panel of shagreen, finely wrought cornerpieces, centerpiece, and openwork clasps silver-gilt, by the Goldsmiths’ and Silversmith Co. Ltd, London, 1910, the cover mounts probably also silver, likely marked on the backs, the cornerpieces representing stylized dragons, the centerpiece incorporating a griffin and a gargoyle and with a mounted amethyst, two wrought metal clasps with griffins and catches with grotesque heads, spine gilt paneled in six compartments with five raised bands, green morocco doublures with heron design in lighter green inlaid morocco surrounded by gilt tooled floral sprays, green silk liners with gilt ruled border, gilt edges.