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Title: The Wilkie Gallery: A Selection of the Best Pictures of the Late Sir David Wilkie, R.A. Including His Spanish and Oriental Sketches. With Notices Biographical and Critical
Description: London, Virtue & Co, 1840. Hardcover. Full leather cover decorated with blind and gilt embossing. Thick bevelled boards and raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 94 pp + notices + 72 tissue guarded bw engravings. An exceptional collection of steel engravings after works by Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie (1785 -1841), who was in his later years the Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and then Queen Victoria. Ill.: Wilkie, David. VG- (ex-library with minimal markings, including a bookplate, call label on spine, and accession stamp on list of plates. plates are not stamped. pages are in exceptional condition with few smudges or spots. Wear and scuffing to the cover, especially to edges and bands. leather is worn through at all corners and is starting to crack at hinges, which is not uncommon with these heavy boards) .
Keywords: European Artists ; Wilkie, David ; ; Wilkie, David
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Title: The Wilkie Gallery: A Selection of the Best Pictures of the Late Sir David Wilkie, R.A. Including His Spanish and Oriental Sketches. With Notices Biographical and Critical
Description: London, Virtue & Co, 1840. Hardcover. Full leather cover decorated with blind and gilt embossing. Thick bevelled boards and raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 94 pp + notices + 72 tissue guarded bw engravings. An exceptional collection of steel engravings after works by Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie (1785 -1841), who was in his later years the Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and then Queen Victoria. Ill.: Wilkie, David. VG- (ex-library with minimal markings, including a bookplate, call label on spine, and accession stamp on list of plates. plates are not stamped. pages are in exceptional condition with few smudges or spots. Wear and scuffing to the cover, especially to edges and bands. leather is worn through at all corners and is starting to crack at hinges, which is not uncommon with these heavy boards) .
Keywords: European Artists ; Wilkie, David ; ; Wilkie, David
Price: US$ 297.50 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 133689
- Book number: 133689
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