Gems of English art of this century. Victorian publisher's binding
Publisher Information: London: George Routledge & Sons, 1869.
Leighton Brothers.] Palgrave, Francis Turner (1824-97). Gems of English art from this century: Twenty-four pictures from national collections. viii, 144pp., plus inserted printed presentation leaf. 24 oil-color plates. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1869. 255 x 196 mm. Original publisher’s binding of green cloth with elaborately decorated paper onlay on the front cover printed in gilt and colors. Leaves coming loose due to deterioration of the original gutta-percha binding, as is usual with 19th-century books bound in this way. Otherwise very good, with only slight wear to the front cover paper onlay.
First Edition, binding variant A. The Leighton brothers, George and Charles, were proprietors of a firm specializing in color printing. George Leighton had trained under George Baxter, inventor of the oil-color printing process that was used to produce the plates in this book; the plates are “excellent productions, that would probably be ‘collected’ if they bore Baxter’s name instead of Leighton’s” (Burch, p. 148). There are two binding variants: A, as described above; and B, a cloth binding stamped in black and gilt without the paper onlay. Burch, Colour Printing and Colour Printers, pp. 148-149.
Book Id: 51902Price: $375.00