Author: Geoffrey Beard
Title: The Work of Grinling Gibbons
Description: London, John Murray, 1989. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Geoffrey Beard's book dedicated to the career of Grinling Gibbons, a bright copy. The first edition of this work. A pictorial study of the work of Grinling Gibbons, an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver who worked in England on prominent landmarks including Windsor Castle and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral, Trinity College, Cambridege, &c. Written by Geoffrey Beard. Celebrative of the range of Gibbons's work including stone carvings as well as woodwork, the monuments as well as decorations. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper with 'Production File Copy' sticker to spine.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper excellent with only 'file copy' sticker to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Grinling Gibbons; et al. Fine/Near Fine.

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