For Sale Revised Edition

1st edition. ~ Large format paperback, G+. 72pp, 12pp b/w plates, covers a little scuffed, a nice copy. ~ Catalogue for an exhibition held at Agnew's in aid of the Victorian Society.

book club edition. ~ Cloth, dj, F/VG. 208pp, 96pp plates showing 35 colour & 102 b/w images, index, a fine copy in a spine sunned dustjacket that is otherwise fine. Book club edition identical to trade edition. ~ Useful overview of painting in the Victoran period with much on the Pre Raphaelites.

Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition (b Cherryburn farm, Eltringham, Northumberland, 10 or 12 Aug. 1753; d Gateshead, 8 Nov. 1828). English engraver, active for most of his life in Newcastle upon Tyne. There he ran a thriving workshop; his account books and other records (many of which are in the Laing AG, Newcastle) show that he had clients in more than 50 towns throughout England, and he was renowned for his scrupulous honesty as a businessman. Most of the workshop's day-to-day jobs involved copper engraving, but for his own projects Bewick preferred wood engraving, and he was the first artist to show the full potential of this technique. He had a great love of the countryside, and his finest works are natural history illustrations, particularly those to his celebrated books A General History of Quadrupeds (1790) and A History of British Birds (2 vols., 1797 and 1804), for which he wrote most of the text himself. The animals and birds are characterized with great skill, but Bewick is as much admired for his tailpieces—little (sometimes tiny) vignettes with which he concluded his account of each animal or bird. These miniature scenes give a wonderfully shrewd and sensitive picture of rural life, bringing out its bleakness and cruelty as well as its beauty and humour. Bewick himself punningly called these scenes ‘Tale-pieces’, for they were ‘seldom without an endeavour to illustrate some truth or point some moral’. The success of his books helped to make wood engraving the dominant medium for book illustration for most of the 19th century and his work was carried on by several followers in Newcastle, notably his son Robert (1788-849). Rebound in strong library binding.

Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition

Este é um cadastramento inicial para o www.gojaba.com. Maior detalhamento do livro, frete correto e informações de pagamento e envio serão informados na resposta ao pedido.