Description of Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum
London: Chapman & Hall, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. cvii, 211 (1)pp., 24 plates. Original brown leather over pebbled green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Green endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Historiated headpieces and initials. Published for the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education. Catalogue of ivories at the South Kensington Museum with a preface by William Maskell. It is illustrated with 19 in-text woodcuts and twenty-four plates of sepia-toned photographs pasted down to heavy stock paper. Includes index of description of the Ivories and general index at rear. Binding with light wear along edges, light fraying of head and tail of spine with some scuffing along joints. Starting at inside covers. Block lightly age-toned. Binding and interior in overall good condition. g. Item #44504
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