Author: Anonymous
Title: The Pictorial Gallery of Arts, Volume II: Fine Arts
Description: London, Charles Cox, 1847 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the second volume of 'The Pictorial Gallery of Arts', with this richly illustrated work examining fine art, sculpture, architecture and paintings. The second volume only of a two volume work.Volume one was published in 1845, and discusses the 'Useful Arts', while this volume examines 'Fine Arts&apos.Illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece, one lithographed plate, and with extensive vignette and full page illustrations throughout.Discussing a wide range of artistic practices, this volume discusses architecture, sculpture, and the history of painting, with each category subdivided into movement and period. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with gilt detailing to spine. Bumping and fading to board perimeters. Hinges strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright, with handling marks and instances of significant spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: art fine art Useful Arts fine art Not Stated


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