Author: Arthur Comfort
Title: Ancient Halls in and About Halifax
Description: Halifax, Halifax Courier Limited, 1913. Hardback. A limited edition, very scarce collection of wood engravings depicting the architecture of Halifax, signed by the artist. A limited edition, with this being number 32 out of only 75 copies printed. This is the first edition in book form, being only previously published in the 'Halifax Courier' newspaper. Signed by the author to the edition page.A very scarce volume, with only two copies being held institutionally. Illustrated with fifty monochrome wood engravings. A collection of wood engravings by Arthur Comfort, a British engraver for 'The Graphic' illustrated journal, and one of the highest ranking British engravers at the end of the nineteenth century, becoming chairman of the international Society of Wood Engravers. The engravings depict the beauty of the architecture found in Halifax. In the original publisher's hardback. In the publisher's original pictorial hardback. Externally smart with spotting and light edge wear. Bookplate of a 'R. L. Foster' to the front pastedown, with an owner's signature to the front free endpaper and offsetting and spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with intentionally unopened pages, and light spotting, heavier to the front and rear. Very Good . Ill.: Arthur Comfort. Very Good .

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