VG--light rubbing to spine top & bottom. light shelf wear to white, back cover. pgs clean & unmarked. tight binding. Glued, illustrated wraps. 67 pp. 27 bw plates. 2 fold-out plates, chronology, lists 37 works, 2 essays on this Polish sculptor. Exhibition held in Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design, Oct. 29, 1993 to Jan. 16, 1994, two other locations. Limited to 2500 copies.
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VG/G+ Contents clean and tight with tanning to page edges. On one copy, dj has fading and small tears at upper back. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, tan and dark green paper dust jacket. xxix, 313 pp. "As a statement of aesthetic theory and of the history of art, [this book] is an idiosyncratic mixture of trailblazing and spokesmanship, insight and misjudgment, prejudice and rationality. The influence of this amazing book, first published in 1864, on the development of American taste has ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Edward Moxon, London
Date published: 1839
Description: Fair. Full gilt tooled leather, front cover hinge broken, it being held on by the chords only. All edges gilt, light to moderate wear to the extremities of the leather, 5 raised bands on spine with black leather label in second compartment, elaborate tooling to the whole. Title-page and fifteen wood-engraved vignettes from drawings by T. Stothard after paintings by E. Landseer, Sir A.W. Callcott, C.L. Eastlake and T. Unwin. 327 pages. A very nice copy which would repair quite nicely. Read More
Edition: limited
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Allen, London
Date published: 1899
Description: Good (Front and rear outer hinge cloth is splitting at top, front hinge cloth is thin. Top edge gilt, page edges untrimmed as issued. ) Green cloth boards with elaborated gilt embossed design on front cover, tan cloth spine with faded gilt title and design. xx, [2], 327 pp. with 14 illustrations. This is copy No. 228 of 250 large paper copies printed. Printed on watermarked handmade paper by Ballantyne Hanson & Co., Edinburgh & London. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London, England
Date published: 1860
Description: Good (ex-library with expected marks plus perforation stamps on title page and pg 1 of both volumes. slight toning to page margins. some wear to spine ends and corners on both volumes, with a strip of cloth missing from top of vol 1 spine and a tear in... Blue cloth. Vol. 1: 443 pp. No illus. Vol. 2: viii, 389 pp. followed by 24 pp. of publishers ads. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date published: 1860
Description: VG-, a very solid and pleasing set in original cloth. Original publishers cloth in 2 volumes. Vol. 1: lxxxvii, 255 pp. with frontispiece portrait. Vol. 2: 325 pp. Read More
Edition: New and Enlarged edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date published: 1859
Description: VG, faint odor of old pipe tobacco not bad. Reddish publishers cloth. 579 pp. with 32 pp. of publishers ads at rear. A solid, sturdy copy of a book that lends itself to falling apart due to it's size. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date published: 1880
Description: VG, front inner hinge a bit weak. Light blue publishers cloth with gilt title design in center of front cover, beveled edges. vi, [2], 159 pp. A rare biography by Lady Eastlake. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780691039022ISBN:069103902X
Description: Fine/VG-(light foxing to block edges, Dj has light general wear) Maroon cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket. xvii, 468 pp. Very well-illustrated with bw figures and occasional color plates. A monumental study. Robertson covers the artists, writers, scholars, and statesmen of Eastlake's Victorian art world, as well as exhibitions and sales, critical controversies and art-historical writing. With appendices which include checklists of Eastlake's own paintings and private collection, a ... Read More
Binding: Softbound
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co, London
Date published: 1870
Description: Fair (Text block has detached from boards. Cloth worn at extremities. Corners bumped. ) Publisher's red cloth. ix, 255 pp. Frontis illustration. A very uncommon title. A presentation copy from the author, signed Eliz. [abeth] Eastlake, 28 Oct. 1870. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London
Date published: 1847
Description: Fair. Spine very worn with minor loss, but cracking, corners worn and exposed, front cover is loose, one signature is crooked, sold as a reading copy of the first edition. 1/2 leather. 561 pp. Read More
