Fans and Fan Leaves [Fine Binding] (2 volumes)

Charlotte Guest, Lady

 London : John Murray, 1888

2 volume set.  London: John Murray, 1888; 1890. Folios, 57 x 39 cm. Rebound in fine 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Gilt tooling. Marbled end pages. Top edge gilt. Perforated stamp on title pages. 314 illustrated plates. Minor loss to corner of plate 133.  38 pp., 161 plates, 2 pp. + 48 pp., 153 plates, 2 pp. Contents: [v. 1] English; [v. 2] Foreign. 

Lady Charlotte Guest was the wife of a wealthy Welsh iron industrialist.  Her collections were wide and opulent.  Much of Guest's extensive collection was bequeathed to the  British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum.