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Septimus Prowett. Good with no dust jacket. 1887. Hardcover. Cover wear. Some page yellowing. .

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849 These two volumes are in VERY GOOD CONDITION, bound in half burgundy leather, with gilt lettering. Covers show edge wear with discoloration and leather flaking. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. Interior has foxing. ENGRAVINGS THROUGHOUT.

London: Septimus Prowett, 1824. Hardcover. Very Good. . Volume 2 only. Luxury binding in full green morocco with lavish gilt decoration, red title lables on the spine, raised band, gilt dentelles. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing fading and soiling. All edges gilt, red endpapers. Pages with minor foxing.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849. ~Original dark green cloth to boards. 20th-century rebacking in attractive polished dark brown calf. Raised bands, gilt decor, and two black gilt labels per spine. Small white splash mark to front board of vol. I. Most board corners slightly pushed in. Mild foxing and browning to page edges. Small 4tos (19.7 x 27cm). Hinges sound. Replacement endpapers uncracked at gutters. Cracking at gutter before first leaf of text in vol. III, and starting at gutter before final leaf of text in vols II & III. Scattered foxing throughout; considerable foxing to pp. 17-40 in vol. III only. Portrait frontis to vol. I by W. H. Worthington after F. X. Fabre, and to vol. III by Henry Moses after Luigi Azimonti. Offset browning to title page of vol. I. 40pp. 'Biographical Memoir' to start of vol. I and 57pp. supplement to the Memoir and 'Thoughts on the Arts' by Canova, collected by his friend the Abate Missirini, to vol. III. Otherwise unpaginated. Profusely illustrated… Leer más

London: Septimus Prowett, 1824. ~Original quarter red morocco, marbled paper to boards. Gilt lettering to smooth spines. Mild wear to spine edges. Mild rubbing to marbled paper on boards. Some wear to board edges, especially corners. Small 4tos (19.8 x 28.8cm). Cracking at gutter after vol. I contents, and around central gathering in vol. II. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Mild offset browning and foxing to endpapers. Pencil inscription to blank front endpage of both vols. 40pp. 'Biographical Memoir' to start of vol. I. Unpaginated except for Memoir. Portrait frontis to vol. I by W. H. Worthington after F. X. Fabre. Over 100 engravings in outline by Henry Moses of Canova's works, with tissue guards. Some edgewear to tissue guards. Foxing largely confined to tissue guards. These two volumes were first published in parts from 1823; this is the first edition in vols. Presumably the project was begun immediately after the death of the great neoclassical sculptor in October 1822. Isabella… Leer más