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Title(s):
The art-treasures examiner : a pictorial, critical, and historical record of the Art-Treasures Exhibition, at Manchester, in 1857 : illustrated by upwards of 150 engravings on wood / by W.J. Linton, H. Linton, F.J. Smythe, R. Langton, W. Morton, T.S. Jewsbury, M. Carbonneau, M. Facnion, &c., &c.
Published/Created:
Manchester : Alexander Ireland & Co. ; [1857]
London : W.H. Smith & Son, [1857]
Physical Description:
vii, 300 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 35 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N5056.M35 A78 1857+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
N5056.M35 A78 1857+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Preliminary number. Published by the proprietors of the 'Manchester Examiner and Times.' Tuesday, May 5, 1847."--P. i.
The two frontispiece plates are chromoxylographs printed by Leighton Brothers.
Includes index.
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Both bound in publisher's blind- and gilt- stamped red cloth, with title printed in gilt within ornamental wreath on front cover. Copy 2 with the bookplate of Rupert Gunnis; inscribed: Miss Sarah Anne Slater the gift of her esteemed friend Isaac Thorniley December 21st 1857.
Subject Terms:
Alexander Ireland & Co. -- Publisher.
Art -- England -- Manchester -- Exhibitions.
Art -- Exhibitions.
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England)
Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate.
Leighton Brothers -- Printer.
Slater, Sarah Anne, Miss -- Pres. insc. from Isaac Thorniley, December 21, 1857.
Thorniley, Isaac -- Pres. insc to Miss Sarah Anne Slater, December 21, 1857.
W.H. Smith & Son -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Chromoxylographs -- 1857.
Wood engravings -- 1857.
Contributors:
Carbonneau, Jean Baptiste Charles, b. 1815, engraver.
Jewsbury, Thomas Smith, engraver.
Langton, Robert Fulshaw, active 1851–1889, engraver.
Linton, W.J. (William James), 1812–1897, engraver.
Linton, Henry Duff, 1815–1899, engraver.
Morton, William, engraver, engraver.
Smythe, Frederick James, engraver.
Leighton Bros. (Printer), printer.
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