first edition
1875 · Liverpool and London
by Audsley, George Ashdown and James Lord Bowes
Liverpool and London: Liverpool for Sunscibers by the Authors and Henry Sotheran & Co, 1875. First Edition. Folio. Two half titles, two title pages printed in red and black. LXXI, [1]2-61; 51 plates with a page of descriptive text, a 4 page list of marks and monograms, and 4 pages showing examples of the various makers marks. The text and plates were all printed on very heavy paper stock, which in turn would have been too heavy for the pages to open fully while in only one volume. All leaves are on stubs suggesting the book was bound from the original parts. The fine illustrations are in monochrome and chromolithograph. The Japanese were especially (truncated)