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Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, one of 400 copies, 4to, xx, (ii), 329, (1) pp. 107 plates, many showing multiple images, bookplate, later signature to fly leaf, minor piece of worming to the lower edge of the first three leaves. Original quarter vellum, t.e.g., some light marking, very good.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Williamson, George. Life and Works of Ozias Humphry, R.A.. London; John Lane The Bodley Head;, 1918.
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Description: First edition, first printing. Large format. One of 400 copies. Very good quarter cream vellum, a bit dullled with gilt titles in plain blue papered boards, worn at the corners. I would speculate the publication would have been finished in vellum or leather had it not been published during World War One.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: LIMITED EDITION, 1/400 copies, copiously illustrated with plates, some in colour, minor foxing, pp. [xxii], 329, 4to original vellum backed boards, top edges gilt, others uncut, good.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Williamson, George C.. LIFE AND WORKS OF OZIAS HUMPHRY, R.A.. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1918.
Price: US$206.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1918. John Lane, The Bodley Head. first edition, limited 400. good, t.e.g., gilt titles on spine. 11.5x9. 329pp. Tissue-guarded frontis, b/w photos throughout. A lavishly illustrated survey of the life and works of Ozias Humphry (1742-1810), and English miniature painter who travelled to India at the end of the eighteenth century and captured court life there.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A signed Limited Edition copy of this study of portrait miniature painter Ozias Humphry, illustrated throughout with examples of the artist's works, and supplemented with a wealth of ephemera. The signed first edition of this Limited Edition study of the life and work of eighteenth century painter of miniatures, Ozias Humphrey, illustrated throughout with full plate and vignette reproductions of his works, a small number of which are reproduced in colour.With only four hundred copies produced, this work is signed by the author, George C. Williamson, to the title page, and dated November 15th 1936.With numerous pieces of ephemera, the majority of which are dated between 1936 and 1942:To the front free endpaper appears a reproduction of a Humphry work, accompanied by two short letters, both addressed to Arthur Jaffe.The first letter is from the private secretary of Williamson himself, and on his letterhead, and thanks Jaffe 'for the photograph of the Ozias Humphry which has come safely to hand, and he is very glad to possess it, and grateful to you for sending it'.The second letter is from J H Andrew at the Royal Academy of Arts, and discusses a miniature from Humphry depicting the 2nd Lady Holland, and an exhibition held at the Academy in 1879. A loosely inserted note on the letterhead of Holland House, Kensington, discusses a miniature of Lady Holland produced in 1794, of which Jaffe supplied a photograph.Among the numerous items loosely inserted are copious notes referring to this volume and the work of Humphry, two notes on the letterhead of Pall Mall's Athanaeum Club, and a letter from Jaffe addressed to Williamson regarding the work of Humphry.The work is annotated throughout with notes regarding both the work of Humphry and Williamson's text, with annotations appearing to both plates and pages, and two pages of notes tipped in.An incredibly detailed study of a leading English painter of portrait miniatures, supplemented with a wealth of curious ephemera revealing the prior owner's enthusiasm for Humphry's work. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum binding, with paper covered boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with significant discolouration to back strip. Light marks to boards. Three items of ephemera pasted to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Signed by the author to the title page. Annotated throughout, to both pages and plates, with notes regarding the work. Two instances of tipped in pages of notes. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom