Sir Thomas Lawrence / by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower ... ; with a catalogue of the artist's exhibited and engraved works, compiled by Algernon Graves.
London; Paris; New York: Goupil & Co., Fine Art Publishers; Jean Boussod, Manzi, Joyant & Co., successors, Fine Art Publishers to the Queen, 25 Bedford Street, Strand; 24, Boulevard Des Capucines, Paris; 170, Fifth Avenue, New York., 1900
Physical Description
[4], iv, 181, [2] pages, 53 unnumbered leaves of plates (some colour) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 33 cm.
General Note
Title page in brown and black.
Publishers device at centre of the title page.
`This edition of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, F.S.A., has been printed and the plates have been engraved by Jean Boussod, Manzi, Joyant & Co., at Asnieres-sur-Seine, near Paris. 1899.’ [Colophon].
Tissue-guarded hand-coloured frontispiece of Emily, Countess of Glengall.
‘Large paper edition, with a duplicate series of Sixty Illustrations.’ [Upper cover]. [The duplicate series is housed separately, in a portfolio within a phase box].
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Illustrations are in 2 states. The second set are housed loosely in a portfolio and are unaccompanied by guard sheets or explanatory letterpress of any sort.
Copy Note
`There have been printed of this edition of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. Two Hundred Copies Numbered I to CC.’ This un-numbered copy is `out of series’ and is stamped “Presentation Copy” on the colophon.
Binding Note
Brown paper covers. Housed in red slipcase with title in gilt on front.