favart emile (2 risultati)

Plain blue stabbed wraps. French text. A reworked version of Favart's popular play first published in 1765. weight: 0.1 lb. Very good, ink names to recto and verso of the title page, covers a little foxed and creased, uncut and unread. 8vo., 21.5x14 cm. 36 pp.

Folio (42 x 27 cm). Bound without title or any text in contemporary half dark calf over purple boards, titled in gilt "Flowers & Plants" to upper cover. 60 full page photo-lithographed sepia plates, signed, and mostly dated 1879 or 1880 in the plate. Binding rubbed, spine partially perished, plates clean. An uncommon book normally bound in 2 vols. with title page and one leaf of letterpress to each volume. Thomas William Hammond, 1854-1935, was a respected Nottingham artist, born in America, who published this book intended as a guide for draughtsmen and designers.