Lot Essay
Edward Stebbing was the managing director of Vincent Robinson, the company that sold the carpet to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The plates were coloured by his son and daughter.
Details
STEBBING, E.: The Ardebil carpet, a volume celebrating the purchase of the carpet with the help of John Edward Taylor for the Victoria and Albert Museum, 17pp. plus various blanks, 5 hand-coloured full-page photo-lithographs, a further two monochrome plates of details with some hand-coloured areas, number thirty-five of a limited edition of fifty copies, original black morocco covers with stamped gold title, large folio, London 1893