Catalogue of decorative & topographical prints including an important collection of prints, books, drawings, ephemera and documents on the history of fireworks (catalogue for an auction conducted by Bloomsbury Books Auctions, London, 2 December 1993)
London, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1993
(24.5 cm), 47 (1) pp., illustrations. 290 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The material on fireworks offered (lots 1-111) included the archives of the oldest British firework manufacturer, Brock’s Fireworks Ltd (founded 1698), and a large collection of their programmes for 19th-century displays (lots 37-42, £9350, Sotheran’s). ¶ Extensively annotated in ink with viewing notes, partly priced.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Prints - 1993
- Festival books and prints - Fireworks
- Authors/Creators
- Bloomsbury Book Auctions (London)
- Auction date
- 19931202
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