The Schools of Sculpture Ancient and Modern. Adapted from the Essay contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. GENERAL SIR RICHARD WESTMACOTT'S COPY WITH ORIGINAL PURCHASE INVOICE
The Schools of Sculpture Ancient and Modern. Adapted from the Essay contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. GENERAL SIR RICHARD WESTMACOTT'S COPY WITH ORIGINAL PURCHASE INVOICE
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1864
- Author
- Westmacott Richard
- Publishers
- A & C Black
- Keyword
- fine art, sculpture, richard westmacott, britannica, richard westmacott
- Languages
- English
Description
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece; original plum cloth, upper board with triple frame border enclosing a frieze image all in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, bevelled edges, green endpapers, uncut, backstrip moderately faded (but all lettering entirely legible), very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. This copy was purchased by Major General Richard Westmacott KCB on 17 August 1909 from George Sully, bookseller, of Kingston-on-Thames. The original purchase invoice (completed in MS) together with Sully's elaborate trade card and a contemporary newspaper obituary of the author, are loosely inserted. A SPLENDID FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY OF WESTMACOTT'S SCARCEST WORK.
