GUIDE FOR DRAWING THE ACANTHUS BY JOHN PAGE 1839 RARE FIRST EDITION
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[PAGE, JOHN]. Guide for Drawing the Acanthus, and Every Description of Ornamental Foliage. Illustrated with Upwards of Two Hundred Wood-Cuts. And Sixty Etchings on Steel. London: Atchley and Co., n.d. [1839].
First edition. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (185 x 110 x 30 mm.). pp. xi, 264, (2 advertisements). English text. Bound in original cloth with decoration in blind to covers. Yellow coated endpapers. Engravings throughout. Illustrations in the text. Adds to rear. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Wear to spine ends with soiling and fading to covers. Marginal stain to frontispiece, the interior otherwise very well-preserved. Pencil inscription. Extremely scarce first edition.