ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHIES OF MODERN ARTISTS
Paris: Librairie d’Art | Ludovic Baschet, 1882.
Folio. Full Leather. A sumptuously bound folio volume, in full navy blue levant with titling in gilt to the front board and the spine; with white watered silk doublures, and turn-ins with dentelles; all edges gilt. There are twelve sections bound together: Sir Frederick Leighton; John Everett Millais; Hubert Herkomer; Paul Jacques Aime Baudry; Josef Israels; Adolf F. E. Menzel; Carl von Piloty; Hans Makart; James Clarke Hook; Alexandre Cabanel; and Jean Louis Meissonier. The front board has been discreetly reattached and the silk endsheets have been reglued. A very handsome book.
Very Good binding.
Item #281121
Price: $950.00