Author: Mrs. Jameson [Anna Brownell Jameson]
Title: Memoirs of Early Italian Painters and of the Progress of Painting in Italy
Description: London, John Murray, 1868. Leather. A smart new edition of this collection of memoirs of early Italian painters, with portraits. New edition. Illustrated with fifty-eight portrait plates. Collated complete. A collection of memoirs of early Italian painters including Gaddo Gaddi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sandro Botticelli, The Bellini, Lionardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Bassano, and many others. With historical commentary on the progress of painting across Italy. Written by Anna Brownell Jameson, under the pen-name Mrs. Jameson, an Anglo-Irish art historian whose work spanned art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism. Bound in full blue calf. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Further spotting and light age toning to the extremities. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: Memoirs Early Italian Painters Early Not Stated


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