Author: John M. Gray [ed.]
Title: George Manson and His Works
Description: Edinburgh, Privately Printed , 1880. Cloth. An excellent limited edition folio printed on large paper documenting some of George Manson's work, with a biographical introduction by John M. Gray. A limited edition to four hundred copies, six of which printed on large paper, of this work. This volume being number one hundred and eighty four printed on large paper. An exciting folio issued as a Memorial Volume for George Manson, Scottish watercolourist, who died in 1876. He spent most of his life painting, and his subjects reproduced a humble Scottish life, children, portraits, landscapes, and architecture in a delicate yet rich style.Comprising the life of the artist and a descriptive index, as well as a list of the subscribers to the rear.A folio illustrated throughout with twenty seven plates reproducing Manson's art. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart with only minor shelfwear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Loosely inserted, an undated column from a newspaper on the works of George Manson. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Folio. Illustrated throughout with twenty seven plates. Collated, complete. Very Good . Ill.: George Manson. Very Good .

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