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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 26 x 19.5 cm. With presentation slip signed by Hesseltine, privately printed by the Chiswick Press. Laid-in a four page ALS to W. Cook dated 4 January 1909. Ten plates (tissue guards) a few in sepia with title, size and medium and collector. The last plates, "Umbrian School" relates to the ALS. J.P. Heseltine was both a distinguished etcher and a great art collector, appointed a trustee of the National Gallery, London serving from 1893-1929. Heseltine sold the most valuable part of his collection (approximately 600 Old Master drawings including his precious Rembrandt drawings) by private treaty sale in October 1912 to P. & D. Colnagi for a reputed £150,000. Orig. blue/gray wrappers. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
W. M. Flinders Petrie. The Arts & Crafts of Ancient Egypt. T. N. Foulis, Edinburgh & London, 1909.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Flinders Petrie's study of Ancient Egyptian arts and crafts. Inscribed to the half title: 'the Rev'd A.E. Beacon, with the author's best regards'.The first edition of this work from the prominent British Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie, a pioneer in the field of archaeology and preservation of artefacts.Illustrated with forty-five plates, containing one-hundred and forty illustrations. Collated, complete.With five pages of advertisements to the rear.Works signed by Petrie are scarce.With chapters on various periods and schools, painting and drawing, stone-working, jewellery, metal work, glass, ivory, and much more, this is a wonderful signed first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Significant discolouration to back strip and perimeters of front board. Inscription to half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with light spotting throughout. Plates exceptionally bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom