Kunz, George Frederick and Stevenson, Charles Hugh (1908)

The Book Of | The Pearl | The History, Art, Science, | And Industry Of The | Queen Of Gems | By | George Frederick Kunz, A.M., Ph.D. | And | Charles Hugh Stevenson, LL.M., D.C.L. | Orient pearls fit for a queen | Will I give thy love to win, | And a shell to keep them in. | -The Faithful Shepherdess (1611) | [ornament] | New York | The Century Co | 1908
Titlepage frame in greenish turquoise

Half title: The Book Of | The Pearl

Collation: 8°: [9] x-xix [1 blank] [3] 4-548 [2 blank] p., frontispiece, plates and photos

Plates: frontispiece, 24 illustrations, 3 engraved plates, photos, text figures, text maps

Page size: 197 x 284 mm

Binding: full editors' cloth with gilt ornaments and text on spine and front cover, top edge gilt

Provenance: autograph dedication "To Miss Belle da Costa Greene | with the Compliments | of the author | George F. Kunz. | Oct 14 | 1908.". From 1905 onward, Miss Belle da Costa Greene (1883-1950) was the personal librarian to J. P. Morgan and after his death (in 1913) she became the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library

Other editions: 1908 (London edition)

References: Sinkankas 3690

Collection: private collection