Author: Benjamin, Susan
Title: English Enamel Boxes / from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Description: London: Orbis Publishing, (1978). (1978). London: Orbis Publishing, (1978). (1978). Fine. - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide], blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a vignette stamped in gilt within a gilt frame on the front cover. All the edges are gilt; marbled endpapers. The book is housed in a blue cloth covered slipcase with a pictorial label mounted on each panel. There is a tiny tear to the cloth on the bottom edge of the front cover. The top edge of the slipcase is lightly rubbed. 127 pages. Profuse color illustrations. Near fine.

No. 28 of a limited edition of 500 copies for the United Kingdom, signed by the author. The colophon is in the form of a pictorial bookplate mounted on the front pastedown. Fine .

Keywords: DECORATIVE ARTS; ENAMELWARE; ENAMEL BOXES; BATTERSEA; ENGLISH ENAMEL BOXES FROM THE EIGHTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES; SUSAN BENJAMIN; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; ILLUSTRATIONS; LIMITED EDITION.

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