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The Graham Watson Collection of Colour-Plate Books at Emmanuel College Cambridge
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Stubbings, F.H.; Emmanuel College Library
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Emmanuel College, Cambridge, first edition
Date Published: 1993
Description: Very Good. Printed wrappers, 4to, 25 cm, iv, 28 pp. An account in Stubbings' 'A Brief History of Emmanuel College Library' describes the gift of the Graham Watson Collection to Emmanuel in 1975 as "one of the most princely ever made to any Cambridge library. The unifying theme of the approximately 1700 volumes is that the great majority are illustrated with hand-coloured engravings, mostly produced in that golden age of book-illustration between about 1770 and 18 40. The subject-matter is ...  read more
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