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Description
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Author: Waagen, Gustav Friedrich
Title: Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collection of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss...
Place Published: London
Publisher:John Murray
Date Published: 1854
Description:
Author: Waagen, Gustav Friedrich
Title: Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collection of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss...
Place Published: London
Publisher:John Murray
Date Published: 1854
Description:
3 volumes. x, [48], 430; v, 503; vi, 486 pp. With color fore-edge paintings on each volume. 21x13.4 cm (8¼x5¼"), contemporary full leather, ruled in gilt, raised bands, sections tooled in gilt; all edges gilt, gilt dentelles.
Each volume features a fore-edge painting of a different location, comprising:
Vol. I: View of the British Museum.
Vol. II: View of Buckingham Palace.
Vol. III: View of Chatsworth House.
With bookplates of Henry Cooke and Edward Thomas King, plus bookseller blind stamp on front endpapers.
Condition
Spines slightly sunned, touches of rubbing to extremities; occasional foxing, mostly to preliminary leaves; very good.
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With three different color fore-edge paintings
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