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Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
2-Aug-2014
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Description:
Books on Engraving (2). [Legrand] Mauclair, Camille Louis Legrand: Peintre et Graveur [ Series title - Etudes sur Quelques Artistes Originaux] Paris, H. Floury Et G. Pellet, [c1910]. 23 full-page plates including 3 eaux-fortes (original etchings), 3 pointes seches (original drypoints), 5 colour heliogravures and 12 black and white heliogravures, c.140 illustrations in text, some full-page. Original illustrated front wrapper, rear wrapper with advertisements, and spine bound in. (6),274pp., top edges gilt, 4to.,later half cloth and marbled boards, leather title label. a fine copy; [Blake] Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of William Blake, 'Pictor Ignotus'. ...Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, in facsimile...[and] with a few of Blake's original platesLondon, Macmillan, 1863. Two volumes complete. First edition. Numerous plates and illustrations, some printed in sepia [collated all present],1 folding, (including 21 photo-lithographs of the Book of Job illustrations and 16 plates printed from the electrotypes of the copper-plates of the Songs of Innocence and Experience), (16),389,(8),268pp., some very occasional minor spotting (plates clean), marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary 1/2 brown calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands and contrasting title labels, spine a little rubbed and now stabilised with conservation leather dressing. Gilt crest of a parliamentary library at spine base. No other markings external or internal. Quite a nice copy. Completed by Dante Gabriel and Michael Rossetti after Gilchrist's death.
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Unclassified