Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Miniatures

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Lot 77 | Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Miniatures
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Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Miniatures

One of 20 printed on vellum and specially bound, 1906-1908

MORGAN COLLECTION – WILLIAMSON, George C., compiler. Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures. The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan. London: privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1906-1908



Spectacular limited edition of the Morgan Collection of Miniatures: one of only 20 printed on vellum and in a special binding with 23 inlaid miniature portraits and scenes. No. 20 of 20 copies printed on vellum. “Not only does [the Pierpont Morgan Collection of miniatures] present a group of works extending from the very earliest days of miniature painting—from the time of Holbein and his contemporaries—down to the decadence of the art in the early Victorian epoch, and even further—to the hero of the pre-Raphaelite movement, including in its purview almost every artist of repute who practiced this special art, but is also allows us to solve more than one puzzling historical problem which no other collection has touched” (introduction to the English miniatures in vol. 1). All twenty of the edition printed on pure vellum were bound in this sumptuous fashion, with hand-painted facsimiles of the historical miniature paintings discussed inlaid into morocco doublures.



Folio (374 x 288mm). Half-titles. Title pages printed in red and black. Copious engraved illustrations of miniature paintings by Hallett Hyatt after photographs, with two frontispieces and 129 of the plates in duplicate with one printing meticulously hand-colored and illuminated, captioned tissue guards.



Original full vellum, embossed metal clasps and catches, upper covers with variously embossed metal center-pieces and corner-pieces with the ciphers of prominent miniaturists, spines gilt-lettered, turn-ins gilt-ruled, doublures of rose-pink crushed levant morocco, variously gilt-decorated with arabesque lines and patterns, often with multicolored morocco inlays surrounding inset hand-colored facsimiles of miniature paintings treated in the respective volumes, each with gilt frames sympathetic to the date of the subject matter; pink moiré silk endleaves, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, original ribbon markers with metal tassels; original gilt-lettered cloth slipcases (occasional minor stains to binding vellum, one metal snap lacking on vol. 3, ribbon markers frayed and some tassels lacking, wear to slipcases).

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