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The Great Seals of England from the time of Edward the Confessor to the reign of his majesty William the Fourth : illustrated by thirty-eight plates, containing exact fac-similes of the seals in their present condition.
[ EDWARDS, Edward 1812-1886. ] / COLLAS, Achilles - Engraver (1795-1859) .:
Editorial: London: Henry Hering 9 Newman Street Oxford Street, 1837
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Librería: CHILTON BOOKS, SUDBURY, Reino UnidoCHILTON BOOKS
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Añadir al carritoFolio. pp.4/pp.17/1p. - Contents] + frontis + XXXVII plates. Original boards very rubbed and bumped. Gilt royal coat of arms to each board. Rebacked in marron cloth with leather label: " Great Seals Of England 1837". Later yellow endpapers. All printed pages foxed. All plates soiled, most foxing resticted to the margins. G+ . ** Provenance: From the Library of George Cattermole 1800 - 1868 painter and prolific book-illustrator with his signature on the title-page. *** "Achille Collas (17951859) was a French engineer, inventor, writer and engraver who developed a way of mechanically creating engravings after medallions and other reliefs, and a machine to copy sculptures at a smaller scale, the so-called "réduction méchanique", which popularized small sculptures and has been credited with being almost entirely responsible for "the transformation of the bronze industry"." - See Wikipedia.…