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Alphabets, numerals, and devices of the middle ages
Author
Title
Alphabets, numerals, and devices of the middle ages, by Henry Shaw, F.S.A.
Published
London, William Pickering, 1845.
Physical Description
4 p., 48 plates (part col.) 40 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center has 2 copies. Copy 1 is a large paper copy having the bookplates of Francis Gray Smart and Edward Hailstone. Copy 2 is the Abbey copy and was bound by D. Condie of Worcester and has the second plate bound as the frontispiece. Copy 2 has the bookplate and stamp of Oliver St. John of Dinmore Manor, Leominster.
BAC : A number of plates etched by the author.
BAC : "Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick."
Notes
Title vignette.
Selected exhibitions: "Color Printing in England, 1486-1870" (Yale Center for British Art, 20 April-25 June, 1978).
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Friedman, J. Color printing in England, 1486-1870, 41-42
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 235
Also listed under
Exhibited in: Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
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