[Rarebooks] FS: Shaw's SPECIMENS OF TILE PAVEMENTS, Pickering 1858 folio with 47 plates printed in color

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SHAW,  Henry.  SPECIMENS OF TILE PAVEMENTS  DRAWN  FROM  EXISTING
AUTHORITIES.  London:  Basil M. Pickering 1858. Folio (10" x  12-3/4")
bound  in  twentieth  century  black buckram; [22] pages  +  47  color
plates  (3  double). A collection of 47 plates printed in  color  with
some  hand-colored  finishing, of the same high quality as other  Shaw
works  such as his classic DRESSES AND DECORATIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
This  title  is  quite scarce and depicts examples  of  medieval  tile
pavements  found at ruined Chertsey Abbey in Surrey and various  other
sites.  Apparently first published in 1852, though that edition  seems
to  have had fewer plates. This copy is from a public library and  has
the  usual markings though only the title and copyright pages bear any
stamps;  the text and plates are clean and the binding is tight.  Very
Good                                                          $1500.00

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