The Windsor Collection of Holbein Portraits of the Court of Henry VIII. Reproduced in Autotype, by Permission of Her Majesty the Queen, From Eighty of the Original Drawings in the Royal Library at Windsor. Volume I and Volume II
London: Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art, 1877. Hardcover. Two oversized volumes bound in 3/4 brown leather and green cloth boards, 5 raised bands on spines with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, marble illustrated end papers. Volume 1 contains an 8 pp preface followed by a list of the plates and plates numbered 1-40. Volume 2 contains a list of the plates followed by plates 41-80. Each plate has an accompanying text page. Fair (heavy shelfwear to boards, internal hinges broken with pages loose, all plates are present, foxing spots throughout, volume 2 has possible water damage to thegreen cloth of the bottom front cover, volume 1 has some damp staining to top edge of beginning pages). Item #190547
"Under the Sanction of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education." title page.
OCLC: 16855493
Price: $500.00