Notices of sculpture in ivory, consisting of a lecture on the history, methods, and chief productions of the art, delivered at the first annual general meeting of the Arundel Society, on the 29th June, 1855 by M. Digby Wyatt, architect, honorary member of the Society, etc. and A catalogue of specimens of ancient ivory-carvings in various collections, (casts of which are sold by the Society in classes exemplifying the principal schools and periods) by Edmund Oldfield, M.A. Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford; Assistant in the Department of Antiquities, British Museum. With nine photographic illustrations, by J. A. Spencer.
This publication was part of the seventh annual publication of the Arundel Society. The nine leaves of illustrations are tipped-in albumen prints photographed by J. A. Spencer of representative specimens of a 'valuable collection of moulds and other materials for the manufacture of casts, representing, nearly in facsimile, some of the most interesting specimenys of ancient Ivory-carvings now in existence' acquired by the Society in the spring of 1855. Following Wyatt's lecture (on pages 1-24) is an amended copy of Oldfield's 'Catalogue of select examples of ivory-carvings from the second to the sixteenth century' first published in 1855 (on pages 25-54).
Printer statement on the verso of the title-page, 'London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars.'
Loosely inserted is a copy of Oldfield's original 1855 'Catalogue of select examples of ivory-carving' and a loose sheet entitled 'Fac-similes of ancient ivory carvings, forming the subject of Mr. M. Digby Wyatt's ecture, at the rooms of the Arundel Society, on the 20th June, 1855' published by the Arundel Society, 24, Old Bond Street, June, 1855.
Provenance
The recto of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in ink 'The Library of the Royal Academy with the Author's respects. May - 1856. M. Digby Wyatt'.
Binding Note
Front board with cover design by M. Digby Wyatt, printed lithographically by Standidge & Co. No spine lettering.