Lot 225
Meyrick, Samuel Rush
A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. 3 volumes, folio (36.6 x 26.4cm), contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt in compartments with labels to second and third and military motifs to remainder, all edges gilt, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece to volume 1, 70 hand-coloured plates (etchings with aquatint), 10 uncoloured etched plates, tissue-guards, numerous hand-coloured historiated initials heightened with metallic pigments, directions to binder leaf and errata leaf to volume 1, rubbing to joints, extremities and covers, occasional light spotting, short closed marginal tear to plate 73;
Skelton, Joseph. Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; after the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, by Joseph Skelton. London: by G. Schulze, for J. Skelton, 1830. First edition, 2 volumes, folio (37.4 x 25.5cm), later half morocco with earlier spines laid down, etched frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages, engraved portrait to volume 1 (dated 1833 and marked proof), and 151 etched plates (numbered 1-150, including 50A-B), all on india paper and mounted, errata leaf to rear, spines worn, covers rubbed, plates 149-50 and associated text-leaves misbound in index, bookplates to front endpapers
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