Ancient Spanish Ballads; Historical and Romantic. Translated, with notes, . . . a new edition, revised. With numerous illustrations from drawings by Williams Allan, David Roberts, William Simon, Henry Warren, C.E. Aubrey, and William Harvey. The borders and ornamental vignettes by Owen Jones, Architect.
by LOCKHART, John Gibson. (trans.); Owen JONES
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London:: John Murray, 1842., 1842. Printed by Vizetelly Brothers and Co. Small folio. [242] pp. Illustrated with numerous engravings by various artists and color decorative boarders by Owen Jones. Contemporary red blind and gilt-stamped morocco, all edges gilt, by Remnant and Edmonds [binders, signed on rear fly-leaf]; some neat repairs to upper joint. Bookplate and stamps from the Brooklyn Public Library, their spine call number and perforated title. Very good. With a marvelous fore-edge painting of "Gibraltar" painted by the "Dover" painter, associated with Marks & Co., ca. 1928. The "Black Gibraltar's giant rocks" are part of the poem called "Count Arnaldos" found within the text. See: Weber, Jeff, Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders, pp. 98-103.
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- Jeff Weber Rare Books (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FF186
- Title
- Ancient Spanish Ballads; Historical and Romantic. Translated, with notes, . . . a new edition, revised. With numerous illustrations from drawings by Williams Allan, David Roberts, William Simon, Henry Warren, C.E. Aubrey, and William Harvey. The borders and ornamental vignettes by Owen Jones, Architect.
- Author
- LOCKHART, John Gibson. (trans.); Owen JONES
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- John Murray, 1842.
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1842
- Keywords
- Fore-edge Painting
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