Product Description
A heavily illustrated first edition art history title, in quarter morocco.
A first edition, bound in quarter morocco and marbled boards, withmarbled endpapers.
Featuring the very scarce French translations of the text contents, bound to the front of the work.
By British painter, art historian and museum director Sir Charles John Holmes.
Holmes had a rich family history in archival professions, including through his uncle, who worked as the Librarian at Windsor Castle, and his grandfather, who had been the Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum.
This title is richly illustrated, featuring ten colourplates with original tissue guards.
Tissue guard to plate at p.
64 absent.
Also featuring sixteen monochrome plates, five double-sided monochrome plates, four single-sided monochrome plates depicting early British engravings, and four further double-sided monochrome plates of the same.
This is all in addition to further monochrome vignette and full-page illustrations throughout.
Collated, complete.
Bound in quarter morocco.
Externally, smart.
Moderate rubbing to extremities.
Moderate fading to spine.
The odd mild scuffs to boards.
Leather spine tips absent.
Internally, firmly bound, with infrequent mild strain.
Pages generally bright and clean.
Very slight cockling to final plate top edge.
Tissue guard to plate at p.
64 absent.
Very Good
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