The Bastille : [volume 1]

Vol. I: pp. 478; frontispiece and 17 photogravure illustrations of historic art work each with captioned tissue guard. Vol: II: pp. 498; frontispiece and 15 photogravure illustrations of historic art work each with captioned tissue guard. Includes original cloth dust jackets, and intact ribbon markers. Signed Margaret Armstrong binding design in gold of a repeated key design surrounding titles within a scroll on dark blue cloth. Spine with repeated crown design surrounded by flourishes repeated on the spine of the dust jackets. Signed Margaret Armstrong title page design in sepia of the Bastille towers with floral swags and borders. A striking set with a contemporary bookplate on front pastedown and a small embossed ownership mark at the top of the front free endpapers and half-titles. Note: according to Gullans and Espey, not all issues of the Armstrong binding also have the signed title page design. -- Austin Abbey Rare Books.

Dark bloom cloth stamped in gold with design of interlocking keys; title and author stamped in gold on spine; top edge gilt. Signed MA [Margaret Armstrong].

Photographs of binding from Watson Library Digital Collections: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll17/id/2848