Author: ELKINGTON, Charles
Title: Elkington's Cabinet Museum of Economic Sculpture in Fictile Ivory, made and sold by Charles Elkington, Electro Metallurgical Artist and Fine Art Manufacturer. Tariff of Nett Prices for Exportation.
Description: Charles Elkington, [April, 1853] 4to. pp. [8]. Stitched, as issued, illustrated throughout. A little browned but a Fine copy. A rare catalogue, and probably one of the first to cover fictile ivory, a recently invented method of approximating the look of ivory using "Plaster of Paris, with Silica, and other matters capable of being moulded into the most delicate and beautiful forms, and which by nice manipulation, is made to take the appearance of ivory so exactly..." It was used to reproduce original ivory forms in a more affordable medium. Charles Elkington appears to have been one of the pioneers of the method.

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