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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-13. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New. The sculptor Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823) was famed for his portrait busts of leading figures of the day. This gossipy, anecdotal two-volume biography, first published in 1828 by the draughtsman and antiquary John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), sheds much light on the London art world in which the sculptor flourished.

London : Henry Colburn, 1829. Second Edition. Softcover. Poor copy, wear and tear as with age. Boards detached, pages loose. Text remains in fine condition. Minor library marks remain. Physical description; vi,494p ; 22 cm. Subject; Nollekens, Joseph 1737-1823.

Paperback / softback. New. The sculptor Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823) was famed for his portrait busts of leading figures of the day. This gossipy, anecdotal two-volume biography, first published in 1828 by the draughtsman and antiquary John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), sheds much light on the London art world in which the sculptor flourished.

Paperback / softback. New. The sculptor Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823) was famed for his portrait busts of leading figures of the day. This gossipy, anecdotal two-volume biography, first published in 1828 by the draughtsman and antiquary John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), sheds much light on the London art world in which the sculptor flourished.

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London: Henry Colburn. 2 volume set. 2nd ed. (1829). 393; 494pp. Black textured cloth with paper title labels on spine. Both vols VG copies, bindings square and tight, corners gently bumped, cloth covers clean, cloth chipped at top of spines particularly vol.2, title labels tanned, light foxing to pages, otherwise internally excellent, ink ownership stamp to each front pastedown of Devonian barrister-at-law F. J. Cornish-Bowden (1843-1905) . Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1829.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Colburn, 1829. Hardbacks. The books are bound in half calf leather with marbled boards, the bindings are rubbe, the top of the spine to the first volume is missing, the front hinge of vol. II weak, the other hinges are sound. There is some edge foxing throughout wi th the frontispieces and first and last few pages more extensively affected. The title pages have an owner's inscription.

Cambridge University Press, 2014-02-12. paperback. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Cambridge University Press, 2014-02-12. paperback. New. 5x1x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Hardbacks, recent half-calf, mabrled boards and end-papers, gilt titles to spines. 2 volume set. 21.5cm x 14cm. Vol. I - x, 424pp; Vol. II - vi, 488pp. Frontispiece in vol. I. 1st edition 1828. Bindings slightly worn, with small losses to spine labels. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedowns. A rather splendid set. A heavy set, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (bs68). 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good +.

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First edition. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A candid biography of this British scultor, complete in two volumes bound in contemporary leather. This biography has been described as being 'perhaps the most candid biography ever published in the English language' for its depiction of Nollekens as being a wretched miser.Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823) was a London-based sculptor considered one of the greatest of the late eighteenth century. With King George III as his patron, he produced busts and sculptures of the likes of Laurence Sterne, William Pitt the Younger, Charles James Fox and the King himself.Written by John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), his executor. A first edition of this work. In a half calf binding. Externally a trifle worn, with loss to the leather of the spine as a result of rubbing, in particular to the tails of each volume, as well as to the extremities. Contemporary ownership inscription to the head of the title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are… Read More

London: Henry Colburn..., 1828. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. x, 424; vi, 488, engraved portrait as frontispiece, contemporary hard grain plum morocco in two tones, gilt spines (slightly worn); ex-library, with the bookplate of the Royal Artillery Regimental Library, Woolwich, in each volume and library stamp on blank end-paper. Smith was keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum. At the end of volume 2, there is a short section on Blake, with some curious anecdotes and details of the Blake material in the collection of Richard Thomson.