Armorial book-plates (deluxe edition)

A$1,000 · 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. 2). Small quarto, patterned cloth with gilt lettered title label (rubbed) to upper board, 172 pp, illustrated throughout with bookplates; a very good copy. A worldwide survey of armorial bookplates including a chapter on Australian armorials.

• Binding: Hardcover

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