LOCKHART JOHN GIBSON translator and editor Ancient Spanish B

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LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON, translator and editor. Ancient Spanish Ballads. Chromolithographed additional title and 3 divisional titles after Owen Jones; 6 tinted wood-engraved plates and numerous text illustrations after David Roberts, William Harvey, and others; each page within wood-engraved or chromolithographed border in different colors. 4to, publisher's red morocco richly gilt, covers with wide border of varicolored morocco onlays enclosing panel with circular lettering piece in center, flat spine with vertically arranged morocco lettering pieces and ornamental onlays, spine and front cover faded, some light rubbing along edges; contents generally clean, with only infrequent minor spotting; gilt edges, gauffered to undulating vine pattern. London: John Murray, 1841

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"Ancient Spanish Ballads, where pictures and designs were conceived together, was the first of the 'illuminated' gift books which became popular around mid-century"--Friedman, Color Printing in England 85. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 226.