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London: John Murray. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1845. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Original 1845 edition. Maroon leather hard bound with gilt decorative edge on cover and gilt design on spine.Gilt page edges all three sides. Worn at edges and where boards attach to spine. Title page in red and black surrounded by an ornamental gilt border, each page chromolithographed in red and black with ruled borders, decorative designs, initial letters, and with vignette illustrations and full-page chromo plates highlighted in gold. Marbled endpapers. Some foxing to pages. Engravings throughout and beautiful illuminated borders to many of the pages along with colored scripts and designs.The vignettes, Initials, Borders, and Ornaments are designed by Owen Jones, Architect. Very minor water staining to a few page edges with light age browning to some pages. Our photo's/scans are of the actual item being sold, not a borrowed image! We provide free delivery tracking and ship daily or… Read More

ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT BY OWEN JONES - IN A HANDSOME RED MOROCCO BINDING ALSO PROBABLY DESIGNED BY JONES first edition thus large 8vo. (24.8 x 17 cms.) xl, 504, [2], 451-484 (notes)pp. with the text on every page enclosed inside a very great variety (changing every few pages) of decorative borders which are printed in colours (very often two, and including red, blue, green, mauve, yellow, and black), numerous large decorative initial letters printed in colours, ornaments (some printed in colours), all these decorations designed by Owen Jones, 12 plates (of which 8 are divisional title-pages chromolithographed in gold and colours by Owen Jones), 3 engravings by J. C. Horsley, 1 by Henry Warren, 37 line engravings drawn from old master paintings by George Scharf jnr. under ther superintendence of Lewis Gruner, final section of notes (which has aberrant pagination) with a simple parallel red and black line border, elaborate (publisher's?) binding of full rich morocco over very thick bevelled… Read More