Dehili Arne and G Howard Chamberlin — Norman Monuments of Palermo and Environs

Boston, MA, Ticknor and Company, 1892. Hardbound. 3/4 mustard cloth with sea-green paper covered boards. 14" x 18". xviii, [2], 30 pp. followed by 72 pages of plates, each with an oval blindstamp in the margin of the image. A large-format book with exquisite plates in various media, including 12 Gelatine Prints, 20 photo-grain views on ten sheets and 50 measured drawings (however, the list of illustrations only calls for 49 drawings). Additional illustrations within the text. A very nice, clean and fresh copy. Scarce in the marketplace. From Charles Wood in 1984: Very nice copy of a rare work, of particular interest for the two different kinds of early photo-mechanical plates - there are 16 “gelatine” views and 20 “photograin” views. The gelatine views were printed by the Heliotype Printing Co. and are a sharp form of photogravure. The photo-grain plates are a primitive form of photogravure and look at first glance like early halftones but do not show screen lines. There are in addition 50 plates of line drawings. VG, oval blindstamp and ornate art museum bookplate .