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Lot of 5 Books of Art, Architecture, Engravings

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Lot of 5 Books of Art, Architecture, Engravings
Five books on art and architecture: 1. PHILADELPHIA N. A. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION [ALBUM OF ENGRAVINGS]. No date or other publication information. Containing approximately 100 black and white architectural, town, and castle or classical ruin landscape scenes from around the world. Album format (6 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.), brown marbled paper, half leather. Nice black and white engravings. Good. Foxing throughout. 2.  GOODWIN-SMITH, R. English Domestic Metalwork. London: F. Lewis (Publishers) Limited, first edition 1937. 4to. Original light brown cloth with gilt lettering and device. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and photographs. Good. Light soiling on cloth, foxing, previous owner inscription on free endpaper. 3.  PARKER, JOHN HENRY. A Concise Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture. Oxford and London: James Parker and Co., 1869. 16mo. Original burgundy cloth, gilt to cover and spine.  Good. Sun faded; foxing to flyleaf and front few pages, but otherwise clean. 4.  RUSKIN, JOHN. The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9. New York: John Wiley, 1859. 8vo. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt to spine and cover. Fair. Fading and scratching, cloth torn at head and foot of spine, corners bumped, foxing throughout.  5. PHILLIMORE, CATHERINE MARY.  Fra Giovanni Angelico Da Fiesole and the Early Florentine Painters of the Fifteenth Century. Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited, 1892. 12mo. Half brown and blue cloth.  Good. Corners bumped, slight buckling of the cloth, wear to spine.