Orlando Jewitt
( Orlando JEWITT ) CARTER, Harry
NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Oxford University Press Oxford, 1962
Stock code: 127
Price: £12.00
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and numerous reproductions of engravings (a number full-page) in the text; pictorial cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, patterned endpapers, anear fine copy in dustwrapper.
Jewitt (1799-1869) was perhaps the finest wood-engraver specialising in Gothic architecture. Records of his life are, however, slight; this is the first attempt at a biographical essay.