The Encyclopaedia of Illustration - a Compilation of More Than 5,000 illustrations and Designs
by Gerard Quinn (Research and Introduction)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1851703608
- ISBN 13
- 9781851703609
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Studio Editions, 1990 Book. Very Good. White Linen Boards. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Compilation of over 5,000 black and white images grouped under the titles: people, occupations, transport, leisure and sport, music, costume, heraldry and armour, ornament and alphabets, architcture, anatomy and medicine, flowers, animals, reptiles, birds, insects and fish. Includes work by Dickens, the Brothers Grimm, Lewis Carroll, and others. 383pp. Black lettering to spine. Small nick to fore-edges with faint scratch across page edges, small blemish to half-title verso and minor marking to corners, otherwise very good plus copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has some edge and surface wear, otherwise very good. VERY HEAVY BOOK, extra postage will be requested..
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- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012005
- Title
- The Encyclopaedia of Illustration - a Compilation of More Than 5,000 illustrations and Designs
- Author
- Gerard Quinn (Research and Introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1851703608
- ISBN 13
- 9781851703609
- Publisher
- Studio Editions
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15"
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
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