TIECK, FRIEDRICHAntiquariat.de
WESTMACOTT RichardBiblio.com
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
186414601A & 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 hinges starting but binding wholly sound a firm clean copy. With the binder's ticket of Burn on rear paste-down. 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. A & C Black, hardcover
Island Books · Royaume-Uni60,00 £GB≈ 68,51 €
