Author: Mrs Jameson
Title: Legends of the Monastic Orders and Sacred and Legendary Art
Description: London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1880-1883. Leather. Three art historical works by Anna Jameson, with illustrations. Three volumes of work by Mrs Jameson, being Legends of the Monastic Orders and the two volumes of Sacred and Legendary Art. Anna Jameson was an Anglo-Irish art historian who wrote on subjects such as art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism. Legends of the Monastic Orders is a sixth edition copy, published in 1880 and forms the second series of Sacred and Legendary Art. With nine plates and other in-text illustrations. With a bookplate for Ernest Lloyd and Frances Gardener to the front pastedown of Legends of the Monastic Orders. With adverts to the rear. Both volumes of Sacred and Legendary Art are ninth editions. The volumes explore the legends of the angels and archangels, the Evangelists, Apostles, Doctors of the Church and St. Mary Magdalene as represented in the Fine Arts.Volume one of Sacred and Legendary Art has nine plates and other in-text illustrations. Volume two of Sacred and Legendary Art has ten plates and other in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original quarter calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, a little worn with rubbing to the spines, especially to the heads and tails. With a bookplate for Ernest Lloyd and Frances Gardener to the front pastedown of Legends of the Monastic Orders. Previous owner inscription to the half title page and reverse of frontispiece of vol. i. Front hinge is starting but remains firm to vol. ii. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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