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1966 Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first edition of this work.
In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.
Richly illustrated throughout the text in colour and monochrome.
A. Kenneth Snowman provides a study of some of the most luxurious gold boxes of eighteenth century Europe, looking at the materials and techniques of various origins from French to Swiss.
Snowman was a British jeweller, painter and the chairman of Wartski, a family firm of antique dealers specialising in Russian works of art.
With a foreword by Sacherverell Sitwell and an appendix by F. J. B. Watson.
Condition
In the original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, with slight discolouration to the cloth edges and light bumping to the spine head and tail. Dust wrapper has light edgewear and marks to the wrap, otherwise very smart. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages throughout.
Very Good
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