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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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