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001 $ 06/3047
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20210922164855.4
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Willshire
245 1 3 $a An Introduction To The Study & Collection Of Ancient Prints. By William Hughes Willshire, M.D. Edin. Late President Of The Medical Society Of London, Etc. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. [Epigraph] Volume I. (II.)
260 # # $a London: $b Ellis And White, 29 New Bond Street. $c 1877. (All rights reserved.)
300 # # $a 2 vols.; $c 235 mm. (Octavo.)
500 # # $a Vol. I: xx, 373, [1] p., frontis. - Vol. II:viii, 305, [1] p., frontis. (fold.), [1] pl. (fold.).
505 0 # $a Vol. I: [Half-t., frontis., t.p.] - Preface To The Second Edition - Preface To The First Edition - Table Of Contents Of Both Volumes - [Text] - Index To Proper Names - Index To Subjects; [colophon]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., frontis., t.p.] - Table Of Contents - Illustrations - [Text, with one pl.] - Appendix - Chronological Table - Table Of Monograms, Marks, And Cyphers - Description Of Plates [i.e. full-page illustrations] - Bibliography - Index To Proper Names - Index To Subjects; [colophon].
508 # # $a The plates are unsigned.

The printer is named on the title-page versos and in the colophons: 'London: Printed by John Strangeways, Castle Street, Leicester Square.'
520 2 # $a The frontispiece of Volume I shows 'The Buxheim Saint Christopher of 1423'; that of Volume II shows the Mass of St. Gregory, manière criblée. The plate facing p. 72 of Vol. II shows the Death of the Virgin, manière criblée.
563 # # $a 19th-century quarter brown morocco, red cloth-covered boards; spines lettered 'Introduction To Ancient Prints - Willshire Vol. I. (II.)' and 'R.A.'
653 # # $a Engravings (prints) - Printmakers - Engraving (printing process) - Europe - History
653 # # $a Collecting - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Art history - Manuals - Catalogues - Reference books - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Strangeways $e printer
710 2 # $a Ellis and White (London) $e publisher