The A & C Black Colour Books

Alacrity, 1990-11-22. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. F/VG++/VG++. Spare Room Shelf 1 HARDBACK ""PUBLISHER'S HISTORY,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1990.* Pub: Werner Shaw Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Bright dark blue cloth covered boards with decorated gilt titles to face & gilt spine label. No bumps, minor rubs to head & tail of spine. No wear or marks to boards. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated jacket. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £30.00. Pale blue titles to front and white/blue titles to spine. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to upper edges and to head of spine. (Now in clear un-attached protective jacket). VG++.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear. No annotations or inscriptions, no marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous colour & a few b/w photo illustrations throughout.* Pages: 293 pp. text. xvi pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: A & C Black's Twenty Shilling series of colour plate books published from 1901 onwards, brought the world into the Edwardian family home at a time when travel, especially overseas, was much more difficult than it is today. For the first time books containing large numbers of plates ? up to 100 per volume ? were made available to the public at an affordable price. This book is the first attempt to record and classify the bulk of A & C Black's colour book output during the first thirty years of this century. It also includes an alphabetical index of artists and authors with brief biographical details where these are known. The illustrations have been chosen to show the different types of books produced, including the range of variants in the covers of particular series.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus with only minimal faults reducing it to VG++.* 0