Orlando Jewitt.
Rare and modern books
Carter Harry
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
1962
Orlando Jewitt.
Rare and modern books
Carter Harry
Oxford University Press, Oxford,
1962
26.45 €
(Devon,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1962
- Author
- Carter Harry
- Publishers
- Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Keyword
- bibliography, jewitt, engraving, engravers, wood engraving, architecture, harry carter, bibliography, general, orlando, jewitt
- Languages
- English
Description
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and numerous reproductions of engravings (a number full-page) in the text; pictorial cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Jewitt (1799-1869) was perhaps the finest wood-engraver specialising in Gothic architecture. Records of his life are, however, slight; this is the first attempt at a biographical essay
