The Book of Beauty; or Regal Gallery 1848
Author:
THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON (Ed)
Title:
The Book of Beauty; or Regal Gallery 1848
Publisher:
David Bogue 1848
Description:
DELIGHTFUL ORIGINAL BINDING, imperial octavo, teal textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt tooling to spine & front board, blind stamp decoration to rear board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus borders to prelim pages, 302pp, 12x black & white plates with tissue guards, VG (moderate bruising & chipping to extrems, moderate tanning to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, heavy cracking to some gutters, prev. owners' names to ffep, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate foxing to plates, all plates are present but some are loose, binder's sm label to rear pastedown, frontispiece tissue guard detached & creased but present, some minor foxing throughout)
Keywords:
women history beauty portraits royal wives Henry 8th eighth viii 3rd third iii first 1st i