Beauties Of Poetry And Art
Book Description
                        Embellished with sixteen facsimiles of water-colour drawings and other illustrations by George Cattermole, T. Sydney Cooper, Edward Duncan, John Gilbert, William Hunt, R. P. Leitch, George Smith, George H. Thomas, Edward H Wehnert, Mrs Ward, Henry Warren, Harrison Weir, and H. B. Willis.  With 16 full page chromolithograph plates  and sepia drawings in the text, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
                    
                                            Dealer Notes
                            Probably originally a gutta-percha binding the book has been rebound in the original covers and stitched.  Some staining and marks to several margins.
                        
                                    
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                        Date
                        No date (c. 1870)
                    
                    
                                        
                        Binding
                        Blue cloth boards with elaborate gilt decoration, all edges gilt. 24x19cms.
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        Ward, Lock, & Tyler, London
                    
                    
                    
                                        
                        Condition
                        Covers scuffed and little rubbed, corners and spine ends little bumped and frayed.  Edge stain inside front cover extending through 14 page margins.  Contents age toned and little foxed.  Bookplate inside front cover.
                    
                    
                                        
                        Pages
                        iv + 68pp + 16 plates
                    
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