Author: Mrs. Jameson; Anna Brownell Jameson
Title: Sacred and Legendary Art, and, Legends of the Monastic Orders
Description: London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1863-66. Leather. A Hayday bound set of the religious artistic works of Anna Brownell Jameson, each volume is illustrated with plates and engravings. Two brilliant artistic works by Anna Brownell Jameson, uniformly bound.Bound by Hayday.'Sacred and Legendary Art', complete in two volumes. The fifth edition, published in 1866. Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece, eight plates and in-text engravings. Volume II is illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding plate, eight plates, and in-text engravings.'Legends of the Monastic Orders', complete in one volume. The third edition, published in 1863. Illustrated with a frontispiece, ten plates, and in-text engravings.Collated, complete.These are the two most successful works of the author, beginning life as a serialisation in 'The Athenaeum' from 1845 to 1846. The first two volumes in this set cover depictions of angels, apostles, evangelists, and Mary Magdalene in art, and how their artistic portrayals have developed across time.The final volume in this work looks at the artistic portrayals of monastic orders.Anna Jameson was an Anglo-Irish art historian who wrote on subjects such as art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism. In a full morocco binding, bound by Hayday. Externally, smart. Spines are a little discoloured. Very light rubbing to the spines and extremities. Very light rubbing and marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots, including to the plates. Small tidemark to the head of some of the plates in 'Sacred and Legendary Art&apos. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

Keywords: Sacred and Legendary Art Legends of the Monastic Orders mrs jameson anna brownell jameson Legends of the Monastic Orders Various


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