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SAILING-SHIPS AND BARGES OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND ADRIATIC SEAS. A SERIES OF COPPER PLATES ENGRAVED IN THE LINE MANNER...
by Wadsworth, Edward
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Etchells & Macdonald, 1926.. Quarto. Cream linen spine and orange cloth over boards, stamped in gilt. Faint dust soiling to spine, trace of normal offsetting to endsheet gutters, otherwise a fine copy in lightly worn slipcase. First edition. Introduction and captions to the illustrations by Bernard Windeler. Illustrated with twenty-three original copper engravings by Wadsworth, printed from the plates, both full-page and vignette, and some delicately handcolored. One of four hundred and fifty copies. Wadsworth was, of course, one of the original signators to the Vorticist manifesto and regrettably that tradition shows through only occasionally and briefly in these draftsman-like renderings. Of particular interest to this cataloguer is the probability that the author of the captions is the same B.C. Windeler whose ELIMUS, with illustrations by Dorothy Shakespear, was published in Pound's INQUEST series three years earlier.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT61791
- Title
- SAILING-SHIPS AND BARGES OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND ADRIATIC SEAS. A SERIES OF COPPER PLATES ENGRAVED IN THE LINE MANNER...
- Author
- Wadsworth, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Etchells & Macdonald
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926.
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About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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- Cloth
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
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