MICHAEL RYSBRACK: SCULPTOR.

First published in 1954 by Country Life Limited, London. Hardcover in good condition. Original publisher's plum cloth boards with gilt titles, moderately scuffed along the edges. Spine lightly sunned. First pages are foxed and age/dust spots on upper block edges. Otherwise contents are complete, tight and free from annotations or inscriptions. No dust jacket. Biographical study of the life and work of 18th century British based Flemish sculptor Michael Rysbrack, responsible for executing busts and funerary monuments of many of the most prominent men of his day, including the monument to Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey, a statue of Marlborough, and busts of Walpole, Bolingbroke, and Pope.