Nollekens and His Times. Volumes I & II.
by John Thomas Smith
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Half maroon leather binding with gilt banding, decoration and title on the spine. Red and blue marbling on the boards. Dimensions are for one volume.
A superb FIRST EDITION With 100 plates and a voided stub. Nollekens (1737-1823) is regarded as the finest British sculptor of the eighteenth century although Smith portrays him as an awful miser in a biography that has been described as " perhaps the most candid biography ever published in the English language. ". 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.?
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- Bookseller
- Martin Frost (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB3072 (1 & 2) /1A
- Title
- Nollekens and His Times. Volumes I & II.
- Author
- John Thomas Smith
- Format/Binding
- Calf spine with marbled boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Colburn.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1828
- Size
- 15 x22 x4cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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