Author: Charles Lock Eastlake
Title: Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts
Description: London, John Murray, 1848 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this collection of essays on the arts by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake. Inscribed to cultural figure Pauline, Lady Trevelyan, by her husband. The very scarce first edition of this workA collection of essays and papers on topics including conservation; the origin of the modern German school of fresco painting; sculpture; basso-rilievo; styles and methods of painting suited to the decoration of public buildings; extracts from the translation of Goethe's 'Theory of Colours', and discussion on the decoration of villas.With a small number of vignette illustrations.Inscribed to the half title 'Pauline J. Trevelyan from her loving W.C.J. 25 January 1849&apos.Pauline, Lady Trevelyan, an English painter, noted for making Wallington Hall in Northumberland a centre of High Victorian cultural life, and for her association with figures including the Rossetti's, Brownings, Swinburne and Ruskin.Her husband, Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, was an English naturalist and geologist.With Pauline's name inscribed to the front pastedown, and the stamp of their descendant 'Sir Walter John Trevelyan, Baronet' to the front free endaper.With twenty pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with a touch of fading to back strip, and minor mark to fore edge of front board. Inscriptions to front pastedown and half title, stamp to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Charles Lock Eastlake Walter Calverley Trevelyan Pauline, Lady Trevelyan Walter Calverley Trevelyan Not Stated


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