John Leech On My Shelves
by Leech, John (William Osgood Field, compiler)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good condition
- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
Munich: Privately printed, Bremer, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Beautifully produced and lavishly illustrated bibliography of John Leech's works, one of 19th century's finest illustrators. A limited edition, number 30 of 150, signed by Field and privately published at the Bremer Press, Munich 1930.
Small folio, 315 pp includes full page and text illustrations. Quarter tan cloth and blue hardboard covers, paper title label on spine, very slightly worn at base of spine. Housed in a disintegrating slip box. Printed on Zanders handmade paper, all edges uncut. The etchings and phototypes printed by Franz Hanfstaengl & J. B. Obernetter.
Small folio, 315 pp includes full page and text illustrations. Quarter tan cloth and blue hardboard covers, paper title label on spine, very slightly worn at base of spine. Housed in a disintegrating slip box. Printed on Zanders handmade paper, all edges uncut. The etchings and phototypes printed by Franz Hanfstaengl & J. B. Obernetter.
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- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6680
- Title
- John Leech On My Shelves
- Author
- Leech, John (William Osgood Field, compiler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Privately printed, Bremer
- Place of Publication
- Munich
- Date Published
- 1930
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Garrison, New York
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