WILKINSON, John Gardner (1797-1875). On Colour and on the Necessity for a General Diffusion of Taste Among All Classes. With Remarks on Laying Out Dressed or Geometrical Gardens. London: John Murray, 1858. FIRST EDITION.
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WILKINSON, John Gardner (1797-1875). On Colour and on the Necessity for a General Diffusion of Taste Among All Classes. With Remarks on Laying Out Dressed or Geometrical Gardens. London: Spottiswoode & Co. for John Murray, 1858.
8vo (222 x 140 mm). 8 chromolithographic plates or lithographs with hand-coloring (including frontispiece), numerous woodcut illustrations. (Some occasional very light spotting.) Original publisher’s pictorial cobalt cloth gilt by Edmonds & Remnant with their ticket (some rubbing). Provenance: Eric Stanley Quayle (1921-2001), British bibliophile (bookplate, 1965).
FIRST EDITION. Wilkinson, considered to be the father of British Egyptology, set for the present work “to see England rival, and if possible excel, other countries in all the various branches of aesthetic art...to show how important it is that all classes of the community should appreciate the beautiful, and encourage the production of good works” (Preface, p. [v]).
Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum
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