New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardcover. Dark brown cloth. appx. 400 pp. Profusely illustrated, numerous steel engravings. Apparently Volumes 2 and 3 bound together, but the order of the plates makes it hard to tell. Sold as a collection of very clean steel engravings, numbering appx. 33, all with tissue..... More
New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardbound. 2 vols. Three-quarter marbled boards with brown leather spines and corners, gilt letters on spines, gilt edges all around;, marbled flyleaves, 636 pp. total, hundreds of BW illus. Two volumes of a larger set devoted specifically to artists and their work. A hefty, substantive..... More
New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardcover. Dark red buckram. 336 pp. Profusely illustrated, steel engravings. Loose vol. III of a three volume set , about 200 pp. devoted specifically to American artists and their work. A hefty, substantive work peppered with crisp, lovely steel engravings. Excellent reference for the student..... More
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Maroon and black cloth binding with gilt label and profuse gilt decoration. 336 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates: 112 illustrations (1 color). Mylar dust jacket. Features a lovely Victorian decorative binding. The best-known work of Clarence Cook, an American..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1877. Hardbound. Publishers decorated brown gilt embossed cloth. Vol. 1: XVI, 466 pp. Vol. 2: XI, 473 pp. Profuse line engravings within the text. A different translation than that of Bennett (1874) of the seventh German edition. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Hardcover. Green cloth, library binding, 239 pp., 15 BW plates. Eliza Southgate Bowne (1783-1809) was born in Scarborough, Maine, and was educated in Boston and Medford, Mass. She married Walter Bowne in 1803; they had two children, a boy and a girl. Unfortunately, Eliza..... More
New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardbound. Three-quarter black leather. Over two hundred pages per vol., three vol. set. Profusely illustrated. Three volume set , about 200 pp. devoted specifically to American artists and their work. A hefty, substantive work peppered with crisp, lovely steel engravings. Excellent reference for the student..... More
New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardcover. Dark brown cloth. 336 pp. Profusely illustrated, steel engravings. Loose vol. III of a three volume set , about 200 pp. devoted specifically to American artists and their work. A hefty, substantive work peppered with crisp, lovely steel engravings. Excellent reference for the student..... More
New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardbound. 3 vols. Black textured cloth, with brown title blocks with gilt letters on front covers, gilt edges all around; 974 total pp., hundreds of BW illus. A three-volume set devoted specifically to a variety of artists and their work. A hefty, substantive work peppered..... More
New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardbound. 3 vols. Black textured cloth boards with brown leather spine & corners, gilt letters and ornate gilt decorations on spines, gilt outlines on covers, gilt decorations on front covers, gilt edges all around; 974 total pp., hundreds of BW illus. A three-volume set devoted..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. Hardcover. Beige cloth boards stamped in brown and green design made to look like cross stitch; all edges yellow tinted; bw portrait frontispiece with tissue guard; xii, 239 pp, 13 portraits on 11 plates. Originally published in Scribner's magazine, v. 2, 1887. Includes a...... More
New York: Dover Publications, 1995. Softcover. Beige ill. wraps. 336 pp. 111 bw ills. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. Hardcover. Brown cloth. 336 pp. 1 color, 111 illustrations. An American version, in many respects, of Eastlakes Hints on Household Taste. This book went through at least four editions, testifying to it's lasting and broad influence. More
NY: 1886. Softcover. Wraps. 20 pp. [[photostat copies]]. This issue is billed as a Special Issue. It includes a cover illustration by Elihu Vedder; A detailed, in-depth review of the Second Prize-Fund Exhibition of The American Art Association, wherein 167 of the paintings in this exhibition are described and/or critiqued..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. Hardcover. Tannish cloth. xii, 239 pp. 15 bw ills. Introductory essay about Eliza's life and family, followed by extensive correspondence between Eliza and her family and friends. The letters provide insight into a typical female childhood of an 18th century New England family. More
new York: The Society For The Advancement of truth In Art / Home Printing Office, 1863-1864. Leather bound. Full crimson leather with 5 raised bands, ruled boarders and corner embossing with center medallion on both covers. 162 pp. This lovely volume, comprising the entirety of the first year of this..... More
