Sir Thomas Lawrence - With a Catalogue of the Artist's exhibited and engraved works

Features

Author:  Roland Sutherland Gower

Publisher:  Goupil & Cie

Place of printing:  Paris

Year of publication:  1900

Product Condition:
Prestigious half leather binding with marbled corners and plates, titles, rich gilded friezes and noble coat of arms on the spine with 5 raised bands, in good condition: slight peeling on the caps and on the edges of the plates, small scratches and pressure marks on the plates. Gilded head cut, traces of dust on the cuts. Ex-libris of Prince Constantin Radziwill on the front pastedown. Papers well preserved, slightly browned, with rare foxing. English Text

Pages:  (4), IV, 181, (3)

Format:  In folio

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  41
Width:  33

Description

Important monograph dedicated to the English painter Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), famous portraitist, official painter of the English court since 1792 and precious witness of the life of English high society between the 18th and 19th centuries. The volume is illustrated by a color plate on the frontispiece and 65 ft plates engraved in bistro in double edition and presents the Catalog of the exhibited and engraved works, compiled by Algernon Graves, at the end of the volume. At Colophon: There have been printed of this edition of Sir Thomas Lawrence Two Hundred copies Numbered I to CC. No. CXXIV. Our copy is further embellished by an illustrious provenance: as evidenced by the beautiful Ex Libris of Prince Constantin Radziwill and the noble coat of arms on the spine, it comes in fact from the library of the Chateau d'Ermenonville

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