A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum
first edition Hardcover
1876 · London
by Westwood, J. O.
London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. xv (i), 547 (1)pp., 32 plates. Rebacked in leather retaining the original half leather binding with gilt lettering on spine, over pebbled green cloth. Gilt top edge. Green endpapers. Title page printed in red an black with publisher's device. Decorative headpieces and historiated initials. With an account of the Continental Collections of Classical and Mediaeval Ivories. Illustrated with twenty-four pasted down photographs, one woodcut and eight lithographs of fictile ivories. "The object of this volume is twofold; firstly, to give descriptions of the collection of fictile ivories, numbering nearly a thousand, in the South Kensington Museum; and, secondly, to give an account of the Continental collections of classical and mediaeval ivories, in order to direct attention to the specimens of which it would be desirable to obtain fictile copies for the Museum." (Preface). Light wear along edges of binding. Previous owner's stamp on half-title. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition. (Inventory #: 44359)