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167 - EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF 'EMMA LADY HAMILTON, AN OLD STORY RE-TOLD' BY HILDA GAMIN
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EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF 'EMMA LADY HAMILTON, AN OLD STORY RE-TOLD' BY HILDA GAMIN Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1891, one volume extended to 2 volumes, with 45 portraits, views and facsimiles and 'Extra Illustrated' with 84 additional portraits, views, prints and printed ephemera, bound in blue crushed Morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spines gilt in compartments, decorated with heart and fouled anchor tools, top edges gilt, upper pastedown inset with a strip of wood stated to be from H.M.S. Victory; together with Lady Hamilton’s attitudes - Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples […] dedicated to […] Sir William Hamilton. By Frederick Rehberg. [Rome], 1794, 4to, engraved frontispiece, title with vignette and 12 plates, publisher’s brown cloth; Sir William Hamilton - Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Vases of the late Sir William Hamilton, First edition, 62 engraved plates ( without half-title, title becoming detached), half Morocco, marbled boards ( rubbed), 4to, London, W. Bulmer & Co., 1804 (4) Provenance: Emma Lady Hamilton, 2 vols: Theodore Seligman, Newton Hall, Cambridge (signed with initials on armorial bookplate—W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (red Morocco booklabel in each volume). 2 vols: spines darkened, extremities rubbed.
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