Holman Hunt's The Oxford Union Society

Hunt, W[illiam]. Holman, OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: THE STORY OF THE PAINTING OF THE PICTURES ON THE WALLS AND THE DECORATIONS ON THE CEILING OF THE OLD DEBATING HALL (NOW THE LIBRARY) IN THE YEARS 1857-8-9 (Oxford: University Press, & London: Henry Froude, 1906).  First edition, 37.5 x 27.5cm [folio], in publisher's quarter-bound blue fine linen-texture cloth w/grey coarse linen-texture cloth spine, lt. blue title to fr. cover & dark blue title to spine, [1-4] 5-15 [16-42] cardstock pp., w/12 photographic plates of the Oxford Union murals by D.G. Rossetti, W. Holman Hunt, Arthur Hughes, William Morris, E. Burne-Jones, etc. (all w/captioned & "Express Bank" watermarked tissue-guards), & introduction by C.J. Holmes.  Stated Limited Edition (264/300) printed at the University Press, Oxford.  With the decorative bookplate of Gail S. Weinberg to recto of fr. ep.  Binding Very Good (corner-tips sl. bumped & worn, & rear hinge cracked); contents Very Good (1 plate's tissue-guard creased, & short closed tear to top of final plate w/verso browned).  Fredeman 36.8 & 79.3, Fennell 953.  (Inv. #561)  C$600 Home Page