Armorial book-plates (deluxe edition)

A$1,100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Their romantic origin and artistic development. Sydney: privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1932. Deluxe edition, limited to 120 numbered and signed copies (this is copy no. 58). Small quarto, patterned cloth with gilt-lettered title label to upper board (title label with a small chip at bottom edge, lower board slightly cockled at top corner); 172 pp, illustrated throughout with bookplates; clean throughout, a very good copy. A worldwide survey of armorial bookplates including a chapter on Australian armorials.

• Binding: Hardcover

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