THOMAS BOWLER (Specially bound copy)

Bradlow (F.)

Description:

His Life and Work.

With the collaboration of Edna Bradlow and a foreword by Dr. William Fehr.

Specially bound copy: 318 pages, tipped-in frontispiece portrait, numerous colour and black & white plates, full brown leather gilt, a very good copy.

Bound without the folding colour facsimile of Bowler's painting "Arrival of the East Indiaman St. Lawrence in Table Bay" which is tipped onto the back paste-down endpaper of the standard edition.

Inscribed by Frank Bradlow as follows on the limitation page: ‘One of two specially bound leather copies, Frank R. Bradlow.’ (The standard edition limited to 1100 copies of which 1000 are signed by the author.)

Details:

  • Publisher: A. A. Balkema
  • Publisher Place: Cape Town
  • Date of Publication: 1967
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (315 x 250 mm)
  • Lot No: 122
  • Hammer Price: $263
  • Bids: 5
  • Visits: 100
  • Estimate: $250/300
  • Reserve: $200

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