The Schools of Sculpture Ancient and Modern. Adapted from the Essay contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. GENERAL SIR RICHARD WESTMACOTT'S COPY WITH ORIGINAL PURCHASE INVOICE
by WESTMACOTT Richard
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A & C Black,, 1864. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece; original plum cloth, upper board with triple frame border enclosing a frieze image all in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, bevelled edges, green endpapers, uncut, backstrip moderately faded (but all lettering entirely legible), very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. This copy was purchased by Major General Richard Westmacott KCB on 17 August 1909 from George Sully, bookseller, of Kingston-on-Thames. The original purchase invoice (completed in MS) together with Sully's elaborate trade card and a contemporary newspaper obituary of the author, are loosely inserted. A SPLENDID FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY OF WESTMACOTT'S SCARCEST WORK.
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- Title
- The Schools of Sculpture Ancient and Modern. Adapted from the Essay contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. GENERAL SIR RICHARD WESTMACOTT'S COPY WITH ORIGINAL PURCHASE INVOICE
- Author
- WESTMACOTT Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A & C Black,
- Date Published
- 1864
- Keywords
- fine art, sculpture, richard westmacott, britannica, richard westmacott
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