Item #102651 Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy, with Seventy-Eight Photogravures and Six Lithographic Facsimiles In Colour. Sir Walter Armstrong.
Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy, with Seventy-Eight Photogravures and Six Lithographic Facsimiles In Colour
Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy, with Seventy-Eight Photogravures and Six Lithographic Facsimiles In Colour

Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy, with Seventy-Eight Photogravures and Six Lithographic Facsimiles In Colour

London / New York: William Heinemann / Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. Hardbound. Red gilt embossed cloth, Top edge gilt. xi, [1], 251 pp., 78 photogravures and 6 color lithographic reproductions. Good- (boards highly scuffed & smudged; may have moisture spotting; darkening to edges. corners rubbed to boards. spines darkened/sunned; may have moisture spotting to edges; ends crinkled, w/ rubs, tears. front hinge may have split; board rattled, but secure. may spine split; though pgs remain intact. pgs tanned w/ instances of smudges, foxing. textblock edges darkened, scuffed). Item #102651

Please Note: This is a Reading Copy. A deluxe copy, measuring about 12.5 inches by 15.5 inches by 2.5 inches thick. Top edge gilt. One of 1000 copies of this edition."The paper of the text is of English make; that of the plates, French. The copper plates in and out of the text were made by Mr. Walter Colls from photographs, with a few exceptions, specially taken for the volume. The photogravures were printed by Mr. Charles Preston, and Messrs. T. Brooker and Co. The lithographs of the sketches and drawings were prepared and printed by Mr. W. Griggs. The English edition of this work is limited to 1110 copies for sale in Great Britain, of which 110 have portfolios, containing duplicate plates on Indian paper."

OCLC: 1064286

Price: $20.00

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