From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 19 August 1998
About this Item
First edition. Illustrated with 75 finely produced beautiful colour plates from paintings by L. Burleigh Bruhl, wonderfully reproduced and with captioned tissue guards. Sketch-Map at end of Volume. 8vo, publisher's olive decorated cloth, the upper cover gilt lettered within illustrated rules with wheat designs,and 3 central saber designs in yellow, orange, red andgray, the spine likewise decorated with the wheat pattern, t.e.g. xii, 26, folding map, 6 ads pp. A pleasing, clean copy, with a small bump on the head of the spine with a tiny break. Still a handsome book. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. A lavish A & C Black title, profusely illustrated with outstanding paintings. There are 75 colourplates provided in this wonderful book that takes us all through Britain's Essex County, a region full of historic and antiquarian interests but often overlooked by tour books. The artist, Louis Burleigh Bruhl, was born in Iraq but educated in Vienna and England. Many of his English watercolour landscapes were used in publicity posters for the Great Western Railway. Burleigh Bruhl served both as President of the Dudley Gallery Art Society and the Watercolour Society. Seller Inventory # 29028
Bibliographic Details
Title: ESSEX. Painted by L. Burleigh Bruhl.
Publisher: London Adam & Charles Black 1909
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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