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TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, bindery. BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Sonnets from the Portuguese. Illuminated by Ross Turner. [New Rochelle]: George D. Sproul, 1901. PRINTED ON VELLUM and illuminated throughout in gold and colors, with numerous large initials and elaborate border, text on rectos only. 4to, green morocco elaborately gilt with red, light and dark green morocco onlays, central gilt initials "EBB" surrounded by elaborate gilt tooling in floral design, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered longitudinally down the spine, g.e.; matching green morocco doublures with central rectangular onlaid white pigskin surrounding a gilt circle with central floral miniature, turn-ins stamp-signed by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, original padded satin-lined white watered silk box, defective. LIMITED "SAINT DUNSTAN" EDITION, number 23 of 30 copies specially illuminated throughout by Ross Turner for Herman A. Metz.