William Shipley Founder of the Royal Society of Arts by D.G.C. Allan
1968. First Edition. 239 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white plates throughout. Colour plate affixed as frontispiece. Dedication and signature of author on front pastedown. Pages remain bright and clean with only slight tanning and foxing to textblock edges and front endpapers. Binding remains firm. Minor corner fraying and edge wear to boards and spine mildly crushed and frayed top and bottom. Gilt bright. Clipped jacket with only very slight edge wear and tape mark to spine.