David blayney brown richard ormand (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Green cloth boards with rose gilt lettering. Green textured spine with rose gilt lettering. 84 pages, illustrations (chiefly color). "This catalogue was issued in a limited edition of 500 copies. It was printed in Turin on Komori Lithone S 29 presses in five colours and bound in Milan, Italy, using Garda Gloss 180 gsm soft fine art paper. Illustrations were printed in dry proof quadratone."--Colophon./ Includes bibliographical references. VG Cover has some corner damage. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Fantastic plates in this book. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> My first encounter with the Great St. Bernard Pass must have been at the age of 10 or 11 around 1953-4. Of course in those far distant days the upper portion of the road across the col was not even fully metalled. That year, instead of my normal bi-annual migration to Italy with my mother in the 1930s luxury of the Golden Arrow and The Train Bleu, a family friend, affectionately known as Uncle Hilton', had offered to drive us down to my father's villa on the Ligurian Coast. We drove sedately, stopping at many points of interest, just as tourists had once done on the Grand Tour, both visiting churches and museums and also, of course, restaurants as we traversed France. believe our conveyance was either a Lagonda cabriolet or maybe a Humber Super Snipe with a coach built Tickford body and for a small boy it was a thrill to see this vehicle loaded by crane into the deep hold of the Cross Channel packet (no roll-on/roll off in those days!). All I now remember is being squeezed into the narrow back seat and.…