British Fire-marks From 1680.
£40.00
Publisher
William Green and Sons.
Place
Edinburgh and London
Date
1911
Synopsis
With sixty illustrations by the author.
Item Description
Large 8vo. 10 x 7.25 inches. xiv + [ii] + 180 + [8] pp. Bound in quarter cream cloth, gilt over blue cloth with black block and titles. Spine a little sunned, slight browning of flyleaves and a few fore edge spots; otherwise a very fine clean interior. Illustrated by decorative title page, frontispiece, by 49 plates, paginated in text, by 6 decorated initials and by 2 text figures. Decorated by 2 vignettes. A history and description of British fire insurance marks, written and illustrated by the artist, George Algernon Fothergill (1868-1945). A fine copy.
[Stock No. 28075]
