Oliver Messel (signed copy) la with over 100 select pieces

with over 100 select pieces from the French luxury jeweller and watchmaker

Gilt lettering to upper board and spine

with raised bands and gilt filets to spine

this time as medical attendant to the princess of Wales (later Queen Caroline)

head and tail of the spine and tips of corners rubbed

Oliver Messel (signed copy) la with over 100 select piecesLondon: Thames and Hudson, 1986. First Edition. Hardback with the pictorial dust jacket. 264 pages, richly illustrated in colour and b w. Signed by the author on the half title. A fine copy. Oliver Messel had a brilliant career as a designer for theatre, ballet, opera,and films which spanned over four decades, from the early 1920s to his death in 1978. The author was a tap dancer and TV producer, who befriended Noel Coward, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh