A General Dictionary of Painters; Containing Memoirs of the Lives and Works of the Most Eminent Professors of the Art of Painting, From Its Revival by Cimabue, in the Year 1250, to the Present Time
London: Thomas Tegg, 1840.
With twenty-six new lives of artists of the British School by Allan Cunningham.
"Reperire, apta atque reperta docendum
Digerere, atque suo quæque ordine ritè locare,
Durus uterque labor.
Ut plurimis proslmus, enitimur."
Vida, Lib. 3. Poetic.
Cicero.
Octavo, original olive green blind-blocked cloth, spine dulled, page edges browned, early ownership signature on front free endpaper, a good solid copy nonetheless.
Price (AUD): $250.00 other currencies