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A selection of our new bindings for sale Count Belisarius. GRAVES (Robert).
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Count Belisarius. GRAVES (Robert).

£750.00

Five black and white maps including frontispiece.
First Edition. 8vo. [216 x 145 x 41 mm]. x, 527, iv pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red morocco, the covers with a gilt double fillet border, the centre decorated in gilt with a Greek-key roll which is tooled on each corner with laurel wreath devices. The spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others a with laurel wreath tool in the centre, dated at the foot, the turn ins with gilt fillets, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1938

Internally very clean. A handsome copy of Graves' historical novel recounting the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius during the reign of Emperor Justinian I.

Stock no. 4234

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Five black and white maps including frontispiece.
First Edition. 8vo. [216 x 145 x 41 mm]. x, 527, iv pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red morocco, the covers with a gilt double fillet border, the centre decorated in gilt with a Greek-key roll which is tooled on each corner with laurel wreath devices. The spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others a with laurel wreath tool in the centre, dated at the foot, the turn ins with gilt fillets, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1938

Internally very clean. A handsome copy of Graves' historical novel recounting the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius during the reign of Emperor Justinian I.

Stock no. 4234

Five black and white maps including frontispiece.
First Edition. 8vo. [216 x 145 x 41 mm]. x, 527, iv pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red morocco, the covers with a gilt double fillet border, the centre decorated in gilt with a Greek-key roll which is tooled on each corner with laurel wreath devices. The spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others a with laurel wreath tool in the centre, dated at the foot, the turn ins with gilt fillets, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1938

Internally very clean. A handsome copy of Graves' historical novel recounting the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius during the reign of Emperor Justinian I.

Stock no. 4234

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