Ian Cox - The Scallop, Studies of a Shell, Shell Transport & Trading Company, 1957

Ian Cox - The Scallop, Studies of a Shell, Shell Transport & Trading Company, 1957

Studies of a shell and its influences on humankind by eight authors.  Edited by Ian Cox.  Contributors include James Laver, Mortimer Wheeler, Paul Gaultier etc.

From the living Scallop to the Scallop at the table.

Decorated cloth gilt in fine condition.   Darkening to spine.  Stains to front cloth and also darker stains to rear, scratches to bottom edge.  Foxing to page edges.  Colour plates through-out.  Text firm and clean.  Bumped corners.  Pictorial endpapers, foxing to reverse.

Weight    898g.    Pages   135.