Notices of Sculpture in Ivory, consisting of a lecture on the history, methods, and chief productions of the art, delivered at the first annual general meeting of the Arundel Society, on the 29th June, 1855. And a Catalogue of Specimens of Ancient Ivory-Carvings in Various Collections, by Edmund Oldfield
Wyatt, M. Digby
London. Office of the Arundel Society. 1856
The ivories represent European work of the 6th-14th centuries, illustrated in a series of nicely-reproduced albumen prints of varied size. When the Society began selling casts of the originals they gave a booklet describing them to each purchaser. The author comments that it took some time to make the required number of photographic prints needed for the undertaking.
The boards were printed in lithography by Standidge & Co. after Digby Wyatt's originals. Although the rear board bears the date 1855 the title page is dated 1856.
[Gernsheim 51].
The boards were printed in lithography by Standidge & Co. after Digby Wyatt's originals. Although the rear board bears the date 1855 the title page is dated 1856.
[Gernsheim 51].
Frontispiece, title page, (iv), 54. 4to. (292 x 226 mm). Half-title, large albumen print photograph as frontispiece, printed title and Digby Wyatt's text and catalogue by Edmund Oldfield illustrated with 8 original albumen photographic plates by J. A. Spencer, each pasted in and with title and caption. Original publisher's printed card boards, covers with elaborate decorative lithograph patterning in red and black after the designs by Digby Wyatt, title to front cover, later black leather spine
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