Cattermole,George and others engraved by Edmund Evans
Title
ART ALBUM sixteen facsimiles of Water-Colour Drawings by George Cattermole, T. Sidney Cooper, Edward Duncan, John Gilbert, William Hunt, R.P. Leitch, George Smith, George H. Thomas, Mrs Ward, Henry Warren, Edward H. Wehnert, Harrison Weir, and H.B. Willis.
PlacePub
London
Publisher
W.Kent and Co.
Date
1861
Illustrations
Color printed plates (16) after well-known artists of the day engraved by Edmund Evans.
Description
Quarto publisher's binding of purply-blue gilt blindstamped cloth with countersunk shaped panel with chromolith paper inlay on bevelled boards (tips worn/spine with 2mm loss to head and 8mm loss at foot/rear board marked/rubbed and bit faded) All Edges Gilt Titlepage + Contents Leaf + Plate list + 16 unnumbered pages of plates + 16 blank guard pages + 16 pages of poetry all pages printed one side only. Four margins with minor damp-marks nowhere near the printed area, one page has a few marginal ink spatters not affecting the printed area also one plate is loose and creased/dusty to edges for a depth of 1cm max. As usual there is light foxing mainly affecting the backs of the plates. Although Rauri McLean finds the illustrations not as fine as some of Evans' earlier work in smaller size he praises the binding as exceptional and illustrates it in his book. The original Victorian binder's ticket of Leighton Son and Hodge is still on the rear endpaper.
Booknumber
V67585
Price
Price: GBP 98.00 or USD 121.00
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