Painted and Described by Philip Norman
London Vanished and Vanishing Painted and Described by Philip Norman
A & C Black, 1905.
First edition. 8vo. Original petrol blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. Top edge gilt. Seventy five colour plates under captioned tissue guards. A very good copy, spine head worn.
One of 3000 copies, originally published at 20/-.
Philip Norman was a British artist who "Frequently depicted parts of London that he knew, particularly buildings or areas which stood as a survivor of a bygone past or which were about to be demolished. He also recorded the history of the buildings which he painted or photographed in such works as "London Vanished and Vanishing"" [British Museum]
Inman records that most of the illustrations were borrowed from the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A).
Inman 54.
Stock ID: 45198
