Sixteen designs for the theatre / by Albert Rutherston, with an introduction

Albert Rutherston

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/4039

Author

Imprint

Oxford; London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, MCMXXVIII

Physical Description

16 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, plates (some colour, some folded) ; 36 x 27 cm.

General Note

“Acknowledgements. Thanks are due to the Victoria and Albert Museum for permission kindly given to reproduce plates Nos. 2, 5 and 14; to Lady Keeble for plates Nos 6, 7 and 9; to Mr Desmond Coke for plate No. 12 and to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tennyson for their courtesy in having lent the original design for the purpose of making plate No. 8”
“Text and collotype illustrations arranged, printed and bound at the University Press Oxford. MCMXXVIII. John Johnson. Printer to the University.” [colophon].

Contents

List of plates -- Introduction -- Plates

Copy Note

“This edition is limited to 475 copies for sale of which this is number 191.” [Reverse of half-title page].

Binding Note

"Dark brown buckram boards with bevelled edges. Spine lettered in gilt: "Sixteen designs for the theatre. Albert Rutherston. Oxford 1928.”

Subject

Illustrated books

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