Lot Closed
December 14, 03:45 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
John Pierpont Morgan--G.C. Williamson
Catalogue of the collection of jewels and precious works of art, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan, compiled at his request by G.C. Williamson. London: Chiswick Press, 1910
LIMITED EDITION, 4to (375 x 280mm.), ONE OF 150 COPIES, this being copy number 51, errata slip at page 1, 94 plates with printed tis🌼sue guards, half crushed dark green morocco, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, slipcase
One of Williamson's lavish catalogues of Pierpont Morgan's collections; a fair proportion of Morgan🔯's jewels are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and some are in the Wadsworth Atheneum in his home town of ⛄Hartford.