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Circa: 1900
Condition: Very good/fine
Publisher: George Bell & Sons
Author: Ernest Rhys
Pages: 144
Hardcover with cream leather and cloth, gilt lettering and design to book spine, gilt to upper text block.
Photogravure frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii pp. and 144 pages, 96 illustrations, two appendices and index.
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"Illustrated biography of one of the great Victorians, artist and sculptor Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896)."
"Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA (3 December 1830–25 January 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter."
Well preserved book for its age. Pages tight and clean with minimal wear. Hardcovers tight with some fading and edgewear. Gilt lettering is readable though faded. Small red dot stain on front cover.
Its magnificent illustrations and content make it very worthy of the serious antiquarian book collector.
Item being sold to raise funds for an insulin pump and other medical expenses and of our senior pastor who is suffering diabetic blindness in his left eye.
Open for best offers.
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