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Author:
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Ottley, William Young
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Title:
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A Collection of one hundred and twenty-nine fac-similes of scarce and curious prints, by early masters of the Italian, German, and Flemish schools; illustrative of the history of engraving . with introductory remarks, and a catalogue of the plates.
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Description:
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Book is Poor Half leather binding,
for the proprietor, sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1828. Dilapidated and very incomplete copy which unfortunately has had the majority of the plates excised. What you get is a nearly complete set of plates featuring a set of playing cards (a la Trappola) engraved in the low countries or Germany in the fifteenth century. The text section is also present and at least suitable as a reference text. The playing cards themselves were originally missing several cards, so its not too serious that some more are missing. Of the original 52, there are supposed to be 48, and now are but 43. These are excellent quality facsimiles, and are in decent condition save for foxing freckles which mostly don't adffect the plate area. The Text block is reasonable (pages all stuck in), with title page and frontis still present, xxxvi intro + xxv plate catalogue. The plain paper guard sheets are all still there with ghostly impressions of the missing plates, except for the second last plate, a 15th C. work by Bernard Zan featuring grotesque masks. The binding is half-leather, spine frayed, worn, but still supple with gilt titling visible. Inner binding sprung, marbled endpapers missing. Given the condition, any reasonable offer might just sway us!
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