Early 20th Century Red Leather Book, Charles Swan's Translation of Gesta Romanorum - Entertaining Stories

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Title: Gesta Romanorum - Entertaining Stories - Broadway Translation
Author: Charles Swan (Translated by), E.A. Baker, D.Litt. (With a Preface … more Title: Gesta Romanorum - Entertaining Stories - Broadway Translation
Author: Charles Swan (Translated by), E.A. Baker, D.Litt. (With a Preface by).
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons LTD.
Publication date: N.D. (circa 1905).
Place: London.

Description: 472 p. 8vo. N.D. (circa 1905). 3/4 Red leather hardcovers, red marble covered boards with matched endpapers and leather end caps, 5 raised bands over spine, gilt stamped/embossed title/decoration, gilt upper edges over cut fore-edge and bottom, gray/antique white headbands, beautifully bound by "James MacDonald Company - New York City" (stamped at top left edge of front-free endpaper).

Measures: 1.5 W x 6 D x 8.75 H inches.

About the work: Invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others have extracted their plots.

About the Binder: N.Y.” James MacDonald was a Scottish bookbinder who came to the United States in 1873. He worked with the famous American binder William Matthews and then established his own binding business in New York in 1880. His listing in the New York Times Book Review described the company as the “Finest equipped bindery in America; (Purchaser of the “Club Bindery”). Special bindings for collectors. Extra fine binding for private libraries. Solander and slip cases of every description.” (November 5, 1922). less