THE PICTURE PRINTER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: George Baxter 1804-1867.
Pp. xxvi+364(last colophon), 16 coloured plates with lettered tissue guards (including frontispiece), plus 30 black & white plates, 4 facsimiles (3 double page, 1 folding), appendix, indices; thick cr. 4to; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & light green, with coloured oval pictorial onlay at centre of upper board, the cloth slightly flecked and rubbed, edges lightly worn, bottom fore-corners of boards bruised, small surface graze near centre of spine; t.e.g., others uncut; bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, hinges starting at a few points, a few leaves carelessly opened, some foxing throughout (heavy at times); Sampson Low, Marston, London, 1911. First edition. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown and the earlier armorial bookplate of J. P. Mitchell on the upper free endpaper. Item #163323
Price: $350.00