The English school of painting in water-colours: . its theory and practice. With the several stages of progression. Accompanied with forty-seven illustrations in the first style of chromo-lithography. By Aaron Penley, ...
Aaron Edwin Penley (1807-1870)
Category
Books
Date
1868
Materials
Measurements
560 x 387 x 37 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3089839
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: thick machine-made wove paper with the prints mounted on them, thinner machine made wove text paper and thinner still interleaving paper. Ink/Pigment: black printing ink and full-colour lithographs Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Adhesive binding, cased Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: single leaf and separate pastedown of yellow-cream coated paper with bookcloth joint Structure: French Edges: plain cut, not decorated Spine Lining: round, square joints, lined with thick textile End Bands: None Bookmark: None Boards: 4mm rope-fibre boards, no back-cornering Covering: red pebble-grain ribbon-embossed bookcloth Tooling Spine: divided into 5 panels with pairs of blind-blocked t/t/t fillets, title blocked in gold in panel 2. Tooling Sides: blind-blocked 3-fillet border around 1-fillet frame, with the title within a large pictorial block in gold inside the frame Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes:
Bibliographic description
vi,[2],130p., 47 plates (col. chromolithographs) . fol.. Ms. colour paint sample loosely inserted.. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red cloth; gilt decorative emboss to front cover; spine title gilt embossed.
Makers and roles
Aaron Edwin Penley (1807-1870)