Henry. Italian Ceramic Art. Figure Design and other Forms of Ornamentation in XVth Century Italian Maiolica with illustrations by Henry Wallis.

Name: Henry. Italian Ceramic Art. Figure Design and other Forms of Ornamentation in XVth Century Italian Maiolica with illustrations by Henry Wallis.
Price: 450 GBP
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Author: WALLIS

by WALLIS

£450 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

WALLIS, Henry. Italian Ceramic Art. Figure Design and other Forms of Ornamentation in XVth Century Italian Maiolica with illustrations by Henry Wallis. London: Bernard Quaritch . 1905. Small 4to. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; pp. xxxii, [2], 103, [2], 103 full-page lithographic illustrations, four double-page colour-lithographic plates; cloth a little darkened and with light bubbling to lower cover, endpapers spotted; internally clean and crisp. First edition, number 26 of a total print-run of only 50 copies, on fine paper. Wallis was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and collector of ceramics. Quaritch published a number of his books in the same format; however this is the title with the smallest print-run. SKU: 2121333

Binding: Hardcover

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