MONUMENTAL BRASSES AND SLABS BY CHARLES BOUTELL 1847 FINE LEATHER BINDING
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[BOUTELL, CHARLES]. Monumental Brasses and Slabs: An Historical and Descriptive Notice of the Incised Monumental Memorials of the Middle Ages with Numerous Illustrations. London: George Bell, MDCCCXLVII. [1847].
First edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (240 x 150 x 35 mm.). pp. xvi, 235. English text. Beautifully bound in contemporary half morocco, spine gilt. Marbled boards, page edges and endpapers. Half-title present. Frontispiece with tissue-guard. Decorative title-page printed in red and black with publisher's device. 190 illustrations throughout. Printed by I. Shrimpton. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the hinges intact. Some light rubbing to extremities and scuffing to leather. Interior largely clean with some light scattered foxing. Two armorial bookplates on the front pastedown and fep.
Notes: A study of monumental brasses and engravings on stone and wood to be found throughout Britain.