The International Gallery. A Collection Of One Hundred Select Works By Ancient And Modern Masters. 2 Vols.
Boston, New York Philadelphia: George Barrie Publisher, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. Original three-quarter burgundy leather over brown pebbled cloth-covered boards; with gilt lettering and vignettes in gilt and red on cover, gilt lettering decor and ruling on spine; raised bands. Gilt edges. Decorative, glossy endpapers. Frontispiece engraving with tissue guard (foxed sky). Title page printed in red and black. With table of fifty engravings at front of each volume, several of them photogravure, with illustrated endpiece; all with solid tissue guards. One-page text for each of the artists. with illustrated initials and endpieces. Includes prints by Arnold Böcklin, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Doré, Anselm Feuerbach, Jean B. Greuze, J. L. E. Meissonier, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, James Tissot, Titian, William Turner, among many others. Several of the plates of volume one with light foxing in plate, heavy at times in frame, the majority of images in near fine to fine condition. Volume II with light foxing in plate of frontispiece, but generally near fine to fine engravings, and sporadic foxing to borders. Bindings with light scuffing along edges, and small crack at bottom front joint of volume two. Good- to fine condition. Item #54561
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