Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - SCARCE -SMITH (John Thomas, known as 'Antiquity Smith', was an English painter, engraver and antiquarian. He wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens, that was noted for its 'malicious candour', and was a keeper of prints for the British Museum, 1766-1833).A book for a rainy day : or, recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years. (London): Richard Bentley, 1845. First edition. iv, 311 pp. Polished calf binding, gilt ruling and lettered label to spine. Size: 8vo (20cm x 12.5cm).Good condition. Lacks one of the blank fly-leaves at the front. Binding a trifle rubbed and marked. Gilt to spine has dulled. Minor abrasion to leather along spine. Light age-toning to edges of text. Some spotting to blank endpapers. Minor spotting to foot of pages 13 to 18. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.A scarce example of this collection of autobiographical anecdotes by 'Antiquity Smith', and English painter and engraver, who is most famous for his cutting biography of the sculptor Nollekens. key words:
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: True Stories
Language: English
Author: John Thomas Smith
Original/Reproduction: Original
Publisher: Richard Bentley
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1845
