Nollekens and his Times

by John Thomas Smith

$250 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

First edition

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 2 vols, 8vo, x, 424, vi, 488pp.Bound in contemporary marbled boards and quarter calf, recently sympathetically rebacked with gilt titles on the new labels. Generally a very good copy with some foxing of first signatures of each vol. § First edition. This interesting collection of biographical anecdotes about and around Nollekens by the keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum includes a section on Blake in vol. II, pages

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