[Fine Binding | Macdonald] Modern and Antique Gems Private Press and gold endpapers

and gold endpapers

Title page printed in red

Some of the gold in the illumination has faded

of which this is #16

an original watercolor by Walter Russell

[Fine Binding | Macdonald] Modern and Antique Gems Private Press and gold endpapersKnight, Frederick (compiler). Knights Modern and Antique Gems. London: T. Griffiths, 1828. With engraved title page (The Triumph of Love) and 85 engraved plates depicting antique and modern cameos, intaglios, and gem designs, followed by an appendix of English, French, Irish, and Scotch mottos. Bound in full dark red crushed morocco by Macdonald of New York (stamp signed at rear turn in), the covers framed in dual gilt rules with a central panel, each