John F. Fleming, Inc. (New York) in association with Priscilla Juvelis (Boston)

(28 cm), [192] pp., [38] tipped-in colour plates, illustrations. 219 items; “The collection will be offered for sale en bloc until November 1, 1983” (p.[6]). Publisher’s red cloth binding. - Edition limited to 750 copies. “This collection reflects the taste of a South American collector [Carlos R. Scherrer, of Buenos Aires, an early patron of the binder Paul Bonet] who bought in Paris, chiefly in the twenties and thirties, and a successor who acquired a part of this collection and added to it significantly” (from the preface, by Eleanor Garvey). Descriptions by Peter Wick. The collection was sold to Frederick R. Koch; most of the books were offered in the two sales of the Koch collection, “The book as art: modern illustrated books and fine bindings”, conducted by Sotheby’s, New York, on 2 June 1995 and 21 November 1995. ¶ Good, unmarked copy.