Benjamin Fawcett: Engraver and Colour Printer Tapa dura - 1988

Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardback. A fine copy in green cloth lettered in gilt. In a complete untorn dustwrapper which shows some fading to the spine. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. 196 pages. 9 colour plates and "upwards of 36 illustrations in black and white." "The book includes a checklist of all known publications containing plates by Fawcett, with every individual plate listed.

Scolar Pr. hardcover. Good. 7x1x11. Ex-Library copy with typical markings and stickers. 1st edition, 1st printing. Numbered edition #390/750. Light wear to covers. Text clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and square. Light wear to the dust jacket. Your satisfaction is guaranteed!

Aldershot,, 1988. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in slightly sunned, VG+ dust jacket; faded at spine.. Large 8vo. pp 196. Original publisher's dark green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Limited edition, this being no. 520 of 750 copies. ISBN: 0859677893

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Scolar Press, 1988. Hardcover. G+ (Page margins have tanned lightly; text and illustrations are good.). Forest green cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, orange & color illus. dust jacket, 196 pp., 36 BW illus. & 9 color plates. Title on cover: Benjamin Fawcett, 1808-1893: finest of the colour printers. "Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) was the outstanding English woodblock colour printer of the nineteenth century. Like Thomas Bewick, Fawcett was artist, engraver, and naturalist; also like Bewick, he chose to spend his entire working life in the countryside in which he was born, in his case the wolds of East Yorkshire. Fawcett originated the books which made him famous, so that he was publisher as well as artist and printer. ... The book includes a check-list of all known publications containing plates by Fawcett, with every [137] individual plate listed." (dj).

Aldershot : Scolar, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 196 pages (some color) : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 genealogical table, portraits ; 27 cm. Subjects; Fawcett, Benjamin Criticism and interpretation. Fawcett, Benjamin (1808-1893). Groombridge and Sons History. Engravers Great Britain ; Biography. Natural history illustration Great Britain Bibliography. Scientific illustration History. Science publishing Great Britain History.

Ashgate Publishing Company , pp. 196 . Hardback. New.