Oliver Messel (signed copy) la Large hardback with the mint

Large hardback with the mint dust-jacket

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

head and tail of the spine and tips of corners rubbed

Gilt lettering to upper board and spine

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

Oliver Messel (signed copy) la Large hardback with the mintLondon: 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