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[HAMPSTEAD BINDERY]. SKELTON, John, sir (1463?1529). Charles I. London, [et al]: Goupil & Co., 1898. 4to. Color?printed frontispiece with additional hand?coloring, 42 plates and vignettes with captioned tissue guards (faint offsetting from frontispiece to title). Contemporary full calf with art nouveau embossing on upper cover of irises, roses, thistle and leaf motifs, the interstitial spaces filled with gilt pointillism patterns, raised bands, gilt titles in compartments, gilt flower heads and a royal crown device in compartments surrounded by more gilt pointillism patterns, top edge gilt, others uncut, watered silk moir? endpapers, BOUND BY THE HAMPSTEAD BINDERY (unsigned). FIRST EDITION reproducing significant paintings and documents, including Charles? marriage agreement and his death warrant. A HANDSOME BINDING from the brother organization to the Guild of Women?Binders. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.