Lot 116
  • 116

Frankau, Julia

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

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Eighteenth Century Colour Prints: An Essay on Certain Stipple Engravers and Their Work in Colour. [With:] Fifty India paper proofs of plates to illustrate ... London: Macmillan & Company, 1900



2 volumes, folio in two sizes (16 7/8 x 13 1/4 in.; 430 x 336 mm and 23 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.;590 x 450 mm). Half-title, tinted title vignette, and 52 engraved plates (including frontispiece and dedication leaf) in the text volume, plus 50 color proofs mounted in second volume; some very light marginal spotting. Contemporary turquoise three-quarter morocco, spines gilt.

Condition

some very light marginal spotting.
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Catalogue Note

One of an edition of 60 copies.