Author: Birket Foster
Title: Some Places of Note in England
Description: London, Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, 1889 . Cloth. The scarce 1889 edition of Birket Foster's collection of engravings of the picturesque views of England. A lovely artistic study of England, showing beautiful scenes throughout the country.Foster was a noted engraver and watercolourist of the Victorian era, producing sentimental views of the contemporary countryside of England.Illustrated with twenty-five engraved plates. Collated, complete.With the armorial bookplates of English businessman, inventor and pottery manufacturer Sir Henry Doulton, and his son H. Lewis Doulton to the front pastedown.Undated; dated 1889 via WorldCat. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with fading to back strip and board perimeters. Armorial bookplates to front pastedown. Internally, a number of pages - including half title, title page, and at least three plates - detached due to gutta percha binding, with remaining leaves tenderly held. Pages clean and bright. Good Only . Ill.: Birket Foster. Good Only .
Keywords: myles birket foster engravings victorian art henry doulton engravings Birket Foster
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Title: Some Places of Note in England
Description: London, Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, 1889 . Cloth. The scarce 1889 edition of Birket Foster's collection of engravings of the picturesque views of England. A lovely artistic study of England, showing beautiful scenes throughout the country.Foster was a noted engraver and watercolourist of the Victorian era, producing sentimental views of the contemporary countryside of England.Illustrated with twenty-five engraved plates. Collated, complete.With the armorial bookplates of English businessman, inventor and pottery manufacturer Sir Henry Doulton, and his son H. Lewis Doulton to the front pastedown.Undated; dated 1889 via WorldCat. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with fading to back strip and board perimeters. Armorial bookplates to front pastedown. Internally, a number of pages - including half title, title page, and at least three plates - detached due to gutta percha binding, with remaining leaves tenderly held. Pages clean and bright. Good Only . Ill.: Birket Foster. Good Only .
Keywords: myles birket foster engravings victorian art henry doulton engravings Birket Foster
Price: GBP 55.00 = appr. US$ 78.54 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 846F50
- Book number: 846F50
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