Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 162 22 Jan 2022
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Exceptionally Illustrated Work on British Seals
Wyon, Alfred Benjamin, and Allan Wyon. THE GREAT SEALS OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME, ARRANGED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL NOTES. London: Elliot Stock, 1887. Folio [37.5 by 28 cm], original red textured cloth, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt; all page edges gilt; black endpapers. (2), xviii, 217, (1), (2) pages; title and dedication leaf printed in red and black; superb Autotype frontispiece plate; decorative headpieces and initials; 56 exceptional Autotype plates of seals. Binding worn, with tears to cloth at spine; one loose signature and one detached plate. Complete and very good or so. No. 157 of 300 copies printed, signed by Allan Wyon. An extravagant production. Both authors served as Chief Engraver of Her Majesty's Seals. Allan Wyon notes in the preface that "As the sons of one of the Chief Engravers of Her Majesty's Seals, and the grandsons of another Chief Engraver, my late brother Alfred and I were acquainted with many of the most important Seals of State from our earliest years." One hundred seventy-eight seals, from the Saxon Kings to Queen Victoria, are carefully described and superbly illustrated on Autotype plates (Autotypes being a proprietary form of photographically printed collotype illustrations). Sigler 2915.
Wyon, Alfred Benjamin, and Allan Wyon. THE GREAT SEALS OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME, ARRANGED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL NOTES. London: Elliot Stock, 1887. Folio [37.5 by 28 cm], original red textured cloth, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt; all page edges gilt; black endpapers. (2), xviii, 217, (1), (2) pages; title and dedication leaf printed in red and black; superb Autotype frontispiece plate; decorative headpieces and initials; 56 exceptional Autotype plates of seals. Binding worn, with tears to cloth at spine; one loose signature and one detached plate. Complete and very good or so. No. 157 of 300 copies printed, signed by Allan Wyon. An extravagant production. Both authors served as Chief Engraver of Her Majesty's Seals. Allan Wyon notes in the preface that "As the sons of one of the Chief Engravers of Her Majesty's Seals, and the grandsons of another Chief Engraver, my late brother Alfred and I were acquainted with many of the most important Seals of State from our earliest years." One hundred seventy-eight seals, from the Saxon Kings to Queen Victoria, are carefully described and superbly illustrated on Autotype plates (Autotypes being a proprietary form of photographically printed collotype illustrations). Sigler 2915.