Book Description

Two Volumes. Half leather.Gilt Decorations to the spines.Marble paste downs and flyleaf.Bands to spines. Marble Boards .Tight and clean. Near fine. Only fault discolouration to leather at top of boards. Wonderful coloured drawings and plates inside. Collectable. An exceptional highly regarded work: McLean states that ''it has considerable claim to be called the most handsome book produced in the whole of the nineteenth century'' (Mclean Victorian Book design and Colour printing . p. 66)
Author Henry Shaw
Date 1843
Publisher William Pickering
Condition Fresh clean tight copy. Near Fine

Price: £2775.00

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