Author: WESTMACOTT Richard
Title: The Schools of Sculpture Ancient and Modern. Adapted from the Essay contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. GENERAL SIR RICHARD WESTMACOTT'S COPY WITH ORIGINAL PURCHASE INVOICE
Description: A & C Black,, 1864. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece; original plum cloth, upper board with triple frame border enclosing a frieze image all in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, bevelled edges, green endpapers, uncut, backstrip moderately faded (but all lettering entirely legible), expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. With the binder's ticket of Burn on rear paste-down. This copy was purchased by Major General Richard Westmacott KCB on 17 August 1909 from George Sully, bookseller, of Kingston-on-Thames. The original purchase invoice (completed in MS) together with Sully's elaborate trade card and a contemporary newspaper obituary of the author, are loosely inserted. A SPLENDID FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY OF WESTMACOTT'S SCARCEST WORK.

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