Malta - The Colour And Life Of Malta From Original Paintings

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Volume in original stiff-card boards. Brown paper wrapper covering this, flaps glued down - in fair condition; edges nicked and dust-dulled with creases along edges. Part of spine covering worn off, exposing stitching (10 cm x 3 cm) Marked scratching to the front colour plate inset and an addition in ink above this. Previous owner's name and address pasted in to front free endpaper. Volume unpaged, consisting of 40 tipped-in colour plates, including frontispiece. Plates all in very good plus condition. Frontispiece has small diagonal crease to bottom right corner. Tissue guards in place throughtout to protect plates. Several of the tissue guards lightly discoloured. Contents: Foreword by H.C.C. Frontispiece: On the road to Città Vecchia during orange picking season -- Gozo boats alongside quay in Grand Harbour -- Bird market - St. John's Square, Valletta -- Street market - Floriana -- The milkman -- Schooners from Sicily in Grand Harbour -- Mending nets - Migiarro, Gozo -- The gu

200 GBP