Author: WORNUM, RALPH NICHOLSON
Title: The Epochs of Painting: A Biographical and Critical Essay on Painting and Painters of All Times and Many Places
Description: London, Chapman and Hall. 1864, First Edition. Red Leather, 220mm. x 175mm. Book, Full Red Calf LEATHER school prize binding. Raised bands, gilt lined and tooled compartments and panels.Black leather title slip. Milled edges to boards and den tels. 220 x 155mm approx. Marbled end papers with matching marbling of edges to book block. xv + 583 pages, 40 b/w illustrations. Ralph Nicholson Wornum (1812-1877) was an English artist, art historian and administrator. He was Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery of London from 1855 until his death. This copy in a school prize binding with the crest of Haileybury College to front panel. Very Good condition with rubbing to extremities with minor scuffs, small split head of spine. College prize book plate to front paste down. Light foxing to end blanks. [736]. Very Good.

Keywords: Art Painting History Biography


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