Ernest George's sketches, German and Swiss: being pen-and-ink drawings transferred by Cowell's anastatic process

Sir Ernest George RA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/3674

Author

Edition

First edition

Imprint

London: W.M. Thompson, 48 Pall Mall and 20 Cockspur Street, 1870

Physical Description

19 pages, 44 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm.

General Note

With an addded anastatic half-title.
The printer is named on the verso of the title page: “Wyman and Sons printers. Great Queen St, London. W.C.”

Provenance

Inscribed in black ink on the front free endpaper: “To the library of the Royal Academy from the author. March 1870.”

Binding Note

Original brown cloth binding with bevelled boards and blocked in gilt and black. All edges gilt. Titled in gilt on spine: “German and Swiss Sketches.”

Subject

Illustrated books
Anastatic prints

Contributors

Sir Ernest George RA, illustrator, donor
W.M. Thompson, publisher
Cowell's Anastatic Press, printer
Wyman and Sons (London), printer