Monuments of Art, Showing Its Development and Progress from the Earliest Artistic Attempts to the Present Period (Volume 1 & 2)

Berlin and New York: Emil Seitz, 1860, Circa. Hardbound. 3/4 black leather with 5 raised bands and elaborate and ornate gilt embossed design on front covers of both volumes, all edges marbled. Vol. 1: 74 plates, most with numerous images on each, including 4 color chromolithographs and two full-page steel engravings. Vol. 2 contains 82 engravings, all with multiple images on each. VG, very old art library blindstamps on title-pages, no other marks/ The plates are generally quite fresh, with the plates in volume 2 exhibiting more occasional smudging on the edges or reverse sides, but still quite nice. Item #125807

Volume 1 is organized as follows: Title-page; blank, Index to Volume (8 pp.); Contents of the First part (Art In its primitive phases of development) listing a total of 12 plates; blank, ornately engraved title-page; Contents of The Second Part (The monuments of classic art) listing a total of 26 plates including one full-page steel engraving and two chromolithographs; Part 3 (The monuments of romantic art) listing a total of 36 plates including one full-page steel engraving and two chromolithographs. Volume 2 contains Part 4 (The monuments of modern art) listing a total of 49 plates; Part 5 (Art of the Present Time) listing a total of 33 plates. Many of these plates in parts 3-5 illustrated works or parts of works by individual artists. The second volume also has an identical engraved title-page like the first volume. The text on the plates is in German. Wordcat reveals "Begun by R. J. A von Voit, as an atlas to F. T.Kugler’s Handbuch der kunstgeschichte", continued by E. K. Guhl and J. Caspar, and later edited by W. Lu¨bke and K. F. A. von Lu¨tzow, with explanatory text."

Price: $450.00

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