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French 17/18th Century Copper Sheet Front Cover of a Book
Located in Buisson, FR
Unique and beautiful front cover that once was placed at a large leather book.
Very detailed with
Category
17th Century French Baroque Antique Book Covers
Materials
Copper
Large Collection of Parisian Decorator
s Samples
Located in Southampton, GB
shown
Paris c1867.
Measurements
H: 50cm
W: 33cm
Book Cover: Motifs de Peinture Decorative pour
Category
19th Century French Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
Large Collection of Parisian Decorator
s Samples
Located in Southampton, GB
shown
Paris, c1867.
Measurements
H: 50cm
W: 33cm
Book Cover: Motifs de Peinture Decorative pour
Category
19th Century French Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
Vintage Enamel Metal Pot With Recent Découpage
Located in Calgary, Alberta
book covers to large furniture pieces.
It fell out of favour for a while but thankfully in the 21sr
Category
Early 20th Century British Victorian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Metal
Vintage Enamel Metal Pot With Recent Découpage
Located in Calgary, Alberta
book covers to large furniture pieces.
It fell out of favour for a while but thankfully in the 21sr
Category
Early 20th Century British Victorian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Metal
Vintage Enamel Metal Pot With Recent Découpage
Located in Calgary, Alberta
book covers to large furniture pieces.
It fell out of favour for a while but thankfully in the 21sr
Category
Early 20th Century British Victorian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Metal
Rare English 18th Cent. Tortoise Shell and Silver Covered Book of Common Prayer
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
This pocket size prayer book dates to 1774 where it was published by C. Eyre and W. Strahan. At a
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Silver
Signed Georges Barbier, Watercolor
Ink on Paper, Art Deco Period
Located in Kingston, NY
.
Possibly an original design for a book cover. Barbier is noted for art deco fashion magazine illustration
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
Dutch Art Deco Haagse School nightstand by Cor Alons, 1920s
By Cor Alons
Located in EVERDINGEN, NL
book cover designer.
Alons trained at the Minerva Academy in Groningen (1911–1913) and the Academy of
Category
1920s Dutch Art Deco Antique Book Covers
Materials
Oak
Secessionist Pair of panels "Dionysus and Demeter" Georg Klimt ca. 1900
By Georg Klimt
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
include everyday objects such as book covers, furniture applications and clock hands, his true genius is
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Copper
Circa 1780-1800 Georgian Secretaire Bookcase
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
leather book covered "secret" document drawers, arched inlaid valences over 8 pigeon holes above the 8
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Book Covers
Materials
Leather, Satinwood, Oak, Boxwood, Wood, Glass
The Chap Book
Located in Hinsdale, IL
BRADLEY, WILL
(1868 - 1962)
"The Chap Book"
Original lithograph from “Les Maitres de L’Affiche
Category
1890s Art Deco Antique Book Covers
Materials
Lithograph
Secessionist Pair of panels Georg Klimt ca. 1900 Patinated Copper Art Nouveau
By Georg Klimt
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
include everyday objects such as book covers, furniture applications and clock hands, his true genius is
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Copper
Secessionist panel "The source" Georg Klimt ca 1900 Patinated Copper Art Nouveau
By Georg Klimt
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
include everyday objects such as book covers, furniture applications and clock hands, his true genius is
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Copper
Sterling Silver ‘Book’ Vinaigrette - Antique Victorian
By Edward Smith
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
subtle engraved horizontal lines depicting the pages of the book.
The hinged silver vinaigrette cover
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
The Royal
Ancient Game of Golf by Hilton and Smith, Limited Edition #172 of 90
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Illustrated Ltd.
This book covers the history and origin of golf, eminent golfers, continental and American
Category
1910s Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
The Bird Cage
By Vanessa Bell
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
, designing wallpapers and dust covers, book covers and stage sets. She also illustrated with woodcuts several
Category
1920s Impressionist Antique Book Covers
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Victorian 14k Yellow Gold Folding Book Locket Pendant
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
closed book. Its cover is lavishly engraved with intricate and ornate swirling detail. The book can be
Category
1860s Victorian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
Earl De Grey Fishing Book with Red Leather Binding
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Earl De Grey Fishing Book.
A wonderful anglers record book with red leather cover, gilded pages
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Book Covers
Fishing Book, "The Natural Trout Fly and Its Imitation"
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
, or ex libris, is a small print for pasting inside the cover of a book, to express ownership. By the
Category
1920s British Sporting Art Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
19th Century French Leather Book Stack Cave À Liqueur
Located in Dallas, TX
of a small decanter with four digestif glasses!
Each book is covered in a mottled tan leather
Category
19th Century French Antique Book Covers
Materials
Leather, Glass, Wood, Paper
Japanese Masterpiece Bonsai Bonseki Miniature Garden Woodblock Book 40 Prints
Located in South Burlington, VT
covered book contains 40 antique woodblock prints of masterpiece miniature tray rock garden presentations
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Edo Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
Antique 19th Century Belisarius M. Marmontel Whittingham Leather Bound Book
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Victorian brown leather hard cover book titled “Belisarius” by M. Marmontel, Member of the
Category
19th Century Antique Book Covers
Materials
Leather, Paper
A fine Vinaigrette modelled as a Book. Made in Birmingham
Located in London, GB
Vinaigrette is modelled as a book and the cover and base are engraved with pluming scrolls on a scratch
Category
19th Century English Antique Book Covers
Fishing Book "By Hook and By Crook" by Fraser Sandeman
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
pasting inside the cover of a book, to express ownership. By the late 19th century, bookplates had
Category
1890s British Antique Book Covers
Playing Tambourine
By Jules Chéret
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
, he produced numerous lithographic vignettes for brochures or book covers. In 1856, Chéret went to
Category
19th Century Impressionist Antique Book Covers
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Scotland
s Gift Golf, " Signed Limited Edition Book by Charles Blair Macdonald
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
500-acre park and given $475,000 to build 36 holes.
In 1928, Macdonald published this book
Category
1920s Antique Book Covers
Vintage French Leather Book Side Table or End Table Opens for Built-in Storage
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Vintage French Leather Covered Faux Book repurposed into an unique End Table or Side Table with a
Category
Early 20th Century French Country Antique Book Covers
Materials
Steel
Champ de Fleurs - Impressionist Oil, Trees
Flowers in Landscape by B O Malone
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
recognition with book cover designs. Again she was persuaded to return home, but only for a brief period
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Book Covers
Materials
Oil, Board
Golf Courses of the British Isles by Bernard Darwin
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
courses in the book are St. Andrews, Sunningdale, Walton Heath, Rye and Hoylake.
Inside the front cover
Category
1910s English Sporting Art Antique Book Covers
Remains of Raleigh
Located in valatie, NY
This antique book has a full Moroccan cover, a bumped and gilt edge. Full gilt edges. Published for
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Book Covers
Materials
Leather
Extremely Rare George I Snuff Box Made in London, circa 1720 by Edward Hall
Located in London, GB
The snuff box is modeled in the form of a large book, with ribbed spine. The cover and base are
Category
1720s English Antique Book Covers
19th Century Italian Carlo X Bleached Walnut Commode
Located in Carmine, TX
Chest of drawers hand-made in Italy in the early 1800s using walnut and decorated with book-matched
Category
Early 19th Century Charles X Antique Book Covers
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Danish Bleached Mahogany Biedermeier Chest of Drawers
Located in Viterbo, VT
can be used on a daily basis. The top is covered in book-matched veneer and has straight edges. On the
Category
Early 19th Century Danish Biedermeier Antique Book Covers
Materials
Mahogany, Pine
19th Century English Black Leather-Bound and Gilt Tooling Holy Family Bible
Located in Dallas, TX
, Petter & Galpin, London, Paris and New York, circa 1860. The book flaunts a black leather cover
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Book Covers
Materials
Leather, Paper
Art Deco Lamp Standing Nude Clarté Max Le Verrier Original, 1928
By Max Le Verrier
Located in Antwerp, BE
octagonal Portor marble base and with crackled glass globe.
This model is illustrated on the cover of
Category
1920s French Art Deco Antique Book Covers
Materials
Marble, Metal
Antique Pair of Roycroft Hammered Copper Bookends
By Roycroft
Located in Topeka, KS
rectangle so the cover of the book can be in view. They are both in wonderful condition and have an early
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Book Covers
Materials
Copper
Collection of Twelve Framed Botanicals from the Rocky Mountains, c. 1926
Located in Chicago, IL
across a gallery wall. We’ve preserved the original front and back covers of the book as well, to include
Category
1920s American Country Antique Book Covers
Materials
Organic Material
"Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain, First Edition, 1883
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
, Twain’s work is also decorated with the original elaborate cover. The book is presented in an attractive
Category
1880s American Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
Cinderella, C.S. Evans, Signed by Arthur Rackham, Limited Edition de Luxe, 1919
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
archival cloth slipcase with an inlaid Rackham illustration on the front cover.
Dimensions: Book: 10 1
Category
1910s Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
The Home of Washington by Benson J. Lossing, Early Edition, 1870
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
. This book was published by subscription only, with this volume printed in Hartford, Connecticut, by A.S
Category
1870s American Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
Antique Moroccan Ceramic Bowl from Fez 1920
s
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Book" on his cover page.
And a similar plate in in display in the Batha Museum in Fez Morocco.
Category
1920s Moroccan Moorish Antique Book Covers
Materials
Ceramic
The Home of Washington by Benson J. Lossing, Illustrated, 1870
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
as to cover the book titles in Washington's library. It is richly illustrated by Lossing, who was
Category
1870s American Antique Book Covers
Materials
Leather, Paper
Antique French Silver Gilt
Enamel Writing Desk Set c1890 Pen Pencil Clock Seal
Located in London, GB
box shaped like a book. The hinged front 'cover' features an iridescent deep blue guilloche enamel
Category
19th Century French Antique Book Covers
Materials
Enamel
“Le Serment D
amour”, Centerpiece, Biscuit, Rudolstadt-Volkstedt, Germany, 19th
By Rudolstadt Volkstedt
Located in Madrid, ES
room, there are two young people embracing each other; next to it, a pedestal with clouds raises a book
Category
19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Book Covers
Materials
Other
Mother and Child
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
plate with the date, 1893.
This moving image of a child and mother examining a music book appeared
Category
19th Century Post-Impressionist Antique Book Covers
Materials
Lithograph
Au Départ Fully Fitted Gentleman’s Travelling Dressing Case, Hall Marked Silver
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
one more hall marked silver lid with no container.
Beneath the lift out tray there is a silk covered
Category
Late 19th Century French Provincial Antique Book Covers
William Makepeace THACKERAY. Original 33 line manuscript poem. c. 1840
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
, 4-1/2" x 14-3/8", laid down, bound into an 8 page blank book, hardbound, marbled covers.
CONDITION
Category
1840s British Antique Book Covers
Materials
Fabric
Large 17th Century Oil on Canvas Painting of Saint Augustine
Located in Dallas, TX
darkened background. Books are piled up behind Augustine, as he holds a pen and an open hard-covered book
Category
17th Century European Baroque Antique Book Covers
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Carved, Gilt and Painted 15th century Tibetan Book Cover
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Carved, Gilt and Painted Book Cover
Tibet, circa 15th century
Carved, gilt and painted wood
29 x 9
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Book Covers
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Great Interiors - Cecil Beaton and Ian Grant" Book - 1967
Located in CA, CA
First edition, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
From 1650-1960, this book covers all
Category
Early 20th Century British Antique Book Covers
Late 19th Century French Leather Book Box Tantalus with Crystal Liqueur Service
Located in Fayetteville, AR
carafes and stoppers are also detailed in gold. Individual holes have been cut out of a book cover in the
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Book Covers
Materials
Crystal
19th Century Jorgen Roed Table
Located in New York, NY
I Dansk Mobletradtion" by Mirjam Gilepen Jorgensen, The book cover in pictures.
Jorgen Roed Denmark.
Category
19th Century Danish Antique Book Covers
Materials
Mahogany, Opaline Glass
Great Interiors, Cecil Beaton and Ian Grant, 1967
Located in CA, CA
, this book covers all the major movements in Western interior design in a series of essays superbly
Category
Early 20th Century British Antique Book Covers
Materials
Other
Original Woodcut Print After Draft by Czech Artist Alfons Mucha
Located in Vienna, AT
draft of his, possibly for the design of a book cover or a menu (see last two photos). It's a
Category
Late 19th Century Czech Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wood, Paint
Le Café-Concert - Cover and Portfolio Book - 1893
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Roma, IT
Portfolio Cover and Book of the very rare "Le Café Concert". It includes an original print
Category
1890s Fauvist Antique Book Covers
Materials
Lithograph
Mother-of-Pearl Book of Prayer with Ihs Embossed Brass Clasp and Gilt Pages
Located in Lisse, NL
art together.
This antique book of prayer consists of a book cover made of hand-sawn and diamond
Category
19th Century Belgian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Brass
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