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Glasgow, Supplement to The Graphic, May 12, 1888

Name: Glasgow, Supplement to The Graphic, May 12, 1888
Author: Brewer (Henry William)

Book Description

wood-engraving with hand-colouring, original folds as issued, a repaired tear at the left sheet edge, well outside the image, otherwise a very good example

Dealer Notes

a large composite of three primary panoramas of this thriving industrial city, the largest full-width central one shows ‘Glasgow from the Necropolis’, the lower centre one shows ‘West-End and Exhibition Buildings from the University Tower’, with detailed views of ‘The New Municipal Buildings’, and ‘University College Completed’, to either side, and the smallest upper centre one of ‘View from the Tower of the Central Hotel’, which has the sheet title ‘Glasgow’ superimposed over it, and has three smaller detail views to either side, comprising to the left ‘A Street by Night’, ‘A Street amongst Tombs’, ‘Gateway of Old College Rebuilt’, and to the right ‘The New Barony Church’, Landing Place and Harbour’, and ‘Govan Iron Works’

Author Brewer (Henry William)

Date 1888

Publisher The Graphic, London

Price: £875.00

Offered by Robert Hall Pictures

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