Author: Stirling Maxwell, Sir William
Title: Annals Of The Artists Of Spain - A New Edition Incorporating The Author's Own Notes, Additions And Emendations [ Volume 3 only ]
Description: John C Nimmo, 1891, 2nd edition. Sprinkled cloth gilt, VG+. xvi+825-1254pp, series title page ( The Works of Sir William Stirling Maxwell ) 15 woodcut illustrations, 7 plates which appear twice in the work - once as a steel engraving & once as a mezzotint giving 14 plates in total, paper spine label in good order, cloth is steel blue with red sprinkled decoration, armorials in gilt on the upper cover, Large paper edition, limited to 415 copies ( 265 for England & 150 for the USA ) of which this is copy 20. an attractive, solid copy, endpapers foxed & yellowed, internally fine. Ex Libris Edward Armitage with his bookplate. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Third volume in Sir William Stirling Maxwell's history of Spanish painting, this volume covering the arts in the later part of the reign of Philip IV to the early reign of Charles II with much on Velazquez & Murillo. Originally published in 1848.

Keywords: art, spanish art, fine art, art history