Accession number
PML 196023-26
Creator
Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942.
Published
London : Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1906-1908.
Notes
Copy number 1 of the Edition de luxe, printed and bound in vellum.
"This Edition, printed on real vellum, with hand-coloured Facsimiles, consists of 20 copies, and is for private circulation only."
"The whole of the plates in this work have been engraved by Hallett Hyatt, of 111, Oxford street, London. All the photographs have been taken by him, and the whole of the hand-coloured facsimiles in the Edition de luxe and in the Royal Edition were executed under his supervision and by his artists."--T.p. verso.
A few plates in two states.
On the corners and medallions of the bindings on v. 1 and 2 are found the monogram signatures of the leading artists whose works are alluded to in the volume.
"This Edition, printed on real vellum, with hand-coloured Facsimiles, consists of 20 copies, and is for private circulation only."
"The whole of the plates in this work have been engraved by Hallett Hyatt, of 111, Oxford street, London. All the photographs have been taken by him, and the whole of the hand-coloured facsimiles in the Edition de luxe and in the Royal Edition were executed under his supervision and by his artists."--T.p. verso.
A few plates in two states.
On the corners and medallions of the bindings on v. 1 and 2 are found the monogram signatures of the leading artists whose works are alluded to in the volume.
Description
4 v. : col. fronts. (v. 1, 3, 4), ill., plates (part col.), facsims. ; 39 x 30 cm
Provenance
Mr. Morgan's copy.
Binding
Bound in vellum, with silver corners, clasps, and medallions, and blue crushed levant doublures in which are set hand-painted facsimile miniatures; in blue morocco cases.
Classification
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Department