Lot 43
Bookbinding - Susan Allix
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£1,625
Description
Alberti, Leon Battista On painting. London: printed for Susan Allix, 1999. 4to., coloured frontispiece and other intaglio prints and illustrations, 20 coloured, 7 monochrome and one in blind, in a mixture of aquatint, drypoint etching with the additional use of carborundum, watercolour and pencil, by Susan Allix, each printed separately, number 22 of 22 copies printed and signed by the artist, bound by Allix in full terracotta leather, tinted with darker dye in areas, abstract blue and purple onlays with black tooling and leathering, contained in a decorated cloth box lined with suede
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire