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LODGE EDMOND
Estimate:
$800 - $1,000
Sold
$2,850
Timed Auction
196 Rare Books including The John Mowbray Collection
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Description
LODGE EDMOND
Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty,
For the Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII with Biographical and Historical Memoirs.
Published by John Chamberlaine; London: Printed by William Bulmer & Co 1812. Shakespeare Printing Office.
Bound volume of 83 plates, 81 are colour stipple engravings and 2 are hand-coloured miniatures. 83 of 84 plates in total. lacking one of the anonymous portraits. Portraits apart from the anonymous plates are all accompanied with biographical text, frontis pieces [2x] are Holbein and his wife. Most are on 'peach' coloured paper with tissue guards. Some spotting and offsetting and a few finger marks. Folio [340mm] bound in original full leather binding with elaborate gold tooling to the spine and decorative blind stamping to front and back boards.
A beautiful collection of engravings after Holbein.
Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty,
For the Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII with Biographical and Historical Memoirs.
Published by John Chamberlaine; London: Printed by William Bulmer & Co 1812. Shakespeare Printing Office.
Bound volume of 83 plates, 81 are colour stipple engravings and 2 are hand-coloured miniatures. 83 of 84 plates in total. lacking one of the anonymous portraits. Portraits apart from the anonymous plates are all accompanied with biographical text, frontis pieces [2x] are Holbein and his wife. Most are on 'peach' coloured paper with tissue guards. Some spotting and offsetting and a few finger marks. Folio [340mm] bound in original full leather binding with elaborate gold tooling to the spine and decorative blind stamping to front and back boards.
A beautiful collection of engravings after Holbein.
Condition
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