LOT 549 Ɵ SNOWMAN, A. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY GOLD BOXES OF EUROPE. PRESE...
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Ɵ SNOWMAN, A. Kenneth. (1919 - 2002). Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, Author's Presentation to Sacheverell and Georgia Sitwell. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. single volume, first edition, large 4to. (320 x 263mm), publisher's green buckram, gilt lettering to black panel on spine, gilt top, dustwrapper unclipped, inscribed and dated by the author in blue ink to half-title, 'Sept. '66, / For Sachie and Georgia, / at long last - / with all my grateful thanks / for your bringing so much lustre / to Gold Boxes / With Love Kenneth', foreward by Sacheverell Sitwell, Appendix by F.J.B. Watson, 750 colour and b/w. plates, 192pp.Provenance: The Art Library of Sir Sacheverel Sitwell, Weston Hall. Condition Report clean bright buckram boards, bright gilt lettering to spine and gilt top, spine slight bumping to head/tail, dustwrapper with marks and a little worn to edges, a clean edge tear approx. 2cm. to l.h. top of front wrapper, and foxing to inside of front flap, foxing to edges affecting some leaf edges,
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