Name: Auction: Chivers binding The Blue Bird
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
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<p>A Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Twentieth Edition. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1911. 8vo (15.9 x 10cm), contemporary ‘vellucent’ binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath (with his gilt stamp to rear turn-in), gilt rules and hand-painted title and floral vignette to spine, front cover with pictorial roundel composed of a gilt gauffered outer band enclosing a hand-painted vignette of a bird on mother-of-pearl ground, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary fleece-lined blue cloth slipcase, spotting to fore and bottom edges of textblock</p>

The Blue Bird

Chivers binding

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Chivers binding

The Blue Bird

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