Sicilian Scenery
William Light
Librería: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, Estados Unidos de America
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Sicilian Scenery from Drawings by P. De Wint. The Original Sketches of Major Light LIGHT, William] (Adelaide, SA, Australia) Bookseller Rating: : London, Rodwell & Martin, 1823, 1823.Tall well margined Quarto, unpaginated but comprising a frontispiece vignette ('Sicilian Cottage'), an engraved title page with a vignette ('Crater of Mount Etna'; verso blank), 60 full-page plates (versos blank), each with a leaf of descriptive text (English on one side, the French translation on the verso) and a tissue-guard, and 3 index pages. Contemporary full black morocco extensively gilt- and blind-decorated, all edges gilt; leather a little rubbed at the extremities, with minor wear to the corners; minimal foxing and some offsetting (confined mainly to the tissue-guards); an excellent copy with the ownership signatures of J. Woodhouse (Brasenose College, 1839) and E. Angas Johnson on the front endpaper. William Light (1786-1839), soldier and artist. His original sketches of Sicily were augmented by De Wint and then engraved on aquatint. with the original tissue guards, upper margin of some leaves light stains, not affecting plates, the engravings are clean and quite vivid under their original protection. Note the binding is 19th century and period, there is rubbing and chipping minor to binding and the binding is slightly cocked, else vg. Scenes from Italian life vividly drawn, gilt raised bands on spine, superb Italian stone marbled boards and endsheets period. N° de ref. del artículo 1000321
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Título: Sicilian Scenery
Editorial: Martin and Rodwell, London
Año de publicación: 1823
Encuadernación: Hardcover
Ilustrador: P. De Wint and Wm. Light
Condición: Very Good
Edición: 1st Edition
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