Notices of Sculpture in Ivory, consisting of a lecture on the history, methods, and chief productions of the art, delivered at the first annual general meeting of the Arundel Society, on the 29th June, 1855. And a Catalogue of Specimens of Ancient Ivory-Carvings in Various Collections, by Edmund Oldfield.
by WYATT, M. Digby
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London.: Office of the Arundel Society., 1856.. Original leather-backed printed boards; slightly warped and stained; rebacked in modern cloth.. 4to.. With 9 tipped-in original albumen photographic plates by J. A. Spencer. The ivories represent European work of the 6th-14th centuries, illustrated in a series of nicely-reproduced albumen prints of varied size. When the Society began selling casts of the originals they gave a booklet describing them to each purchaser. The author comments that it took some time to make the required number of photographic prints needed for the undertaking.[Gernsheim - Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, no.51].
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- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
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- 23856
- Title
- Notices of Sculpture in Ivory, consisting of a lecture on the history, methods, and chief productions of the art, delivered at the first annual general meeting of the Arundel Society, on the 29th June, 1855. And a Catalogue of Specimens of Ancient Ivory-Carvings in Various Collections, by Edmund Oldfield.
- Author
- WYATT, M. Digby
- Format/Binding
- Original leather-backed printed boards; slightly warped and stained; rebacked in modern cloth.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Office of the Arundel Society.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1856.
- Pages
- Frontispiece, title page, (iv), 54.
- Size
- 4to.
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Sims Reed Ltd. (Est. 1978, St James's London) specialises in rare books related to art and architecture and stocks a wide range of material in the following categories: Antiquarian, Illustrated Books, Contemporary Artists' Books & Multiples, Periodicals, Architecture, Photography, Applied Arts, Manuscripts and Ephemera.
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