Vieilles Faiences Turques En Asie Mineure et a Constantinople by Raymond, Alexandre

Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. (no date), hardcover, no dust jacket; elephant folio; original printed boards and cloth spine; ex city public library with its label on front cover,ink shelf numbers, bookplate on fronto pastedown, small bar code label and "reference" red stamping on front blank endpaper; perforated library stamp on half title and title page and pencil and rubber stamp numbering on verso of title page; plates unstamped and unblemished, except for faint age toning, mostly to blank margins; collation: half title with blank verso, title page with blank verso, 4 page introduction, 12 page essay on Ottoman architectural ceramics, 2 page part IV entitled "Faiences de Koutaieh, XIX Century"; 3 page bibliography followed by 35 (of 36) full-page plates, missing double-page Plate #5/6; Plate #14 has ink numbering in left blank margin, corresponding to shelf numbers on spine plus "985168"; plates are on coated matte finish paper and are all intact with bright unblemished coloring; board edges and corners lightly worn; spine extremities frayed, spine moderately soiled, spotting and light soiling to boards; all text in French; text leaves lightly and uniformly toned, but fully legible and clean; plates 7/8, 10/11, 12/13 and double-page and so numbered; other plates are full-page, all with "A. Raymond del." imprint designating artist.