Lot 200
Treatise on Wood Engraving Illustrated. Supplement containing Specimens
of Wood Engraving (lettered thus on spine), album with manuscript title within decorative watercolour frame, "Specimens of Wood Engraving Mdcccxl", another leaf inscribed Henry S. Richardson within similar frame (presumably the compiler), comprising numerous examples of book illustrations, head and tailpieces, trade advertisements etc, tipped in or mounted, by named engravers in 38 sections including Thomas Bewick, G. Baxter, W. J.
Linton, E. Landells and Luke Clennell, and 2 further sections: Various Engravers and French Engravers, contemporary half green morocco gilt, some wear to spine, bookplate of Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall, Worcestershire, folio
Henry S. Richardson was the author of a work on Greenwich, 1834, illustrated with wood engravings by G. Baxter.
