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Evangeline

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Auction dateClassic
06.10.2022 12:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 813639
Lot 85 | Evangeline
Evangeline

Acadian edition, 1903

DE VINNE PRESS – LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882). Evangeline ... Illuminated by John H. Tearle. [New York]: Merrill & Baker, 1903.



The Acadian edition: one of 26 copies printed on vellum, richly illuminated by John H. Tearle, and specially bound with a portrait miniature. All 26 copies are unique in their illumination, this is letter "W" with the recipient unnamed. Signed by the illuminator and on behalf of the printers and publishers on the limitation leaf.



Quarto (314 x 236mm). Printed on vellum single-sided, illuminated throughout by John H. Tearle in watercolor and burnished gold. Title-page with watercolor vignette of a path through the woods and three-quarter border. Leaf and flower head- and tail-pieces, illuminated border decorations and 6-line initials in many colors and gold, vignette of a dove at end of text (a few scattered areas of pale discoloration to vellum including last text leaf). Original crushed and polished morocco, dyed green, red, and yellow in the grain, covers with gilt and onlaid green morocco leaf and vine outer border, central panel with multiple gilt fillet and purple morocco strapwork frame and gilt and onlaid white and red morocco flowers and buds, spine and turn-ins similarly decorated, green morocco doublures, the upper doublure set with an oval portrait miniature of Evangeline within gilt frame, ivory silk endleaves. Full morocco box lined with velvet.

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