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Hard cover, large 4to, (10 1/8 inches tall), in sturdy, round-edged boards full leather gilt decorated binding by Cooper & Co. Ld., Birmingham (stamp signed to lower front board). Ruled in blind and gilt to boards, with five raised bands, the compartments decorated in gilt, and with titles to second and fourth compartments. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Marbled endpapers, gilt decorated turn ins, engraved armorial bookplates to both front and rear endpapers. Printed on heavy wove stock. Pages to the first two essays are individually numbered; (they were likely reused from the first-released separate numbers in wraps)1-35pp. and 1-72pp. The others are continuously numbered 1 - 241pp. CONDITION: Very Good Plus with some scuffing to the tips to back cover. Mild discoloration spotting to front board. Internally, the book is Near Fine, with hinges and joints in order, clean, square and bright. Contents. Lecture I: Realistic Schools of Painting: D.G. Rossetti and W. Holman Hunt. Lecture II: Mythic Schools of Painting, Edward Burne-Jones, and G.F. Watts, 72pp. Lecture III: Classical Schools of Painting, Sir Francis Leighton and Alma-Tadema. Lecture IV: Fairy-Land, Mrs Allingham and Kate Greenaway. Lecture V, The Fire-Side, John Leech and John Tenniel. Lecture VI: The Hill-Side, George Robson and Copley Fielding. These lectures were presented by the influential Victorian British social and art critic, and Slade Professor of Art at Oxford for two terms, from1870-1879 and again from 1883-85. He explains some of the classical and medieval source material of the Pre-Raphaelites, and traces the development of then-modern English art and illustration.
Ref: BAAC 9816
$80.00