The Wilkie Gallery: A Selection of the Best Pictures of the Late Sir David Wilkie, R.A. Including his Spanish and Oriental Sketches. With Notices Biographical and Critical.
Published by George Virtue in London and New York nd. c.1845
SKU: 51012
£100.00
Folio (approx. 35 x 27cm) hardback in half black calf with red title label, gilt to spine and marbled boards. All edges speckled in red. 94pp. pages text including 33 steel-engraved plates with tissue guards and another 34 steel-engraved plates, also tissue-guarded, with accompanying descriptive text on unnumbered pages. (List of Plates calls for 67 - all present). A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Remains of an Auction Lot numbered sticker to upper board. Heavy foxing to prelims, lighter to plates. Spine rather faded and rubbed with wear to all edges. Marbled boards somewhat rubbed and scuffed. Overall a Good Copy.