Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860

J. R. Abbey

Verlag: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, London, 1953

Beschreibung

A smart limited edition of this brightly illustrated bibliographical catalogue of artwork exploring life in England. Limited to five hundred copies of which this is number seventy-one. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, thirty-two collotype plates, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. A vast bibliographical catalogue of artwork exploring life in England, with chapters on art collections, decorative printing, illustrations of the classics, the navy, the army, sports and pastimes, railways, costume, stage, panoramas, and much more. From the library of Major John Roland Abbey, an English book collector and high sheriff. Images for this work were produced with the use of printmaking techniques aquatint, for tonal effects, and lithography. In the original full grey cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the panels. Light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 897T1

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography ...

Verlag: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1953

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Not Stated

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Indeed

Art des Buches: book