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TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, bindery. DANTE ALIGHIERI. Vita Nuova... Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Illuminated by Ross Turner. [New Rochelle]: George D. Sproul, 1902. PRINTED ON VELLUM and illuminated throughout in gold and colors, with elaborate borders and numerous large initials, text on rectos only. 2 volumes, 4to, gray morocco elaborately gilt, each cover with morocco onlays in red, blue, green and white in various geometrical designs, central vellum shield bearing a single gilt fleur-de-lys, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered longitudinally, g.e.; doublures of green and gray morocco, decoratively tooled border with various colored morocco heraldic onlays surrounding a central fleur-de-lys on vellum shield, turn-ins stamp-signed by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, portions of morocco onlay of two doublures loose; original padded satin-lined white watered silk boxes, defective. LIMITED "SAINT DUNSTAN" EDITION, number 23 of 30 sets specially illuminated throughout by Ross Turner for Herman A. Metz. (2)