Photograph Album of Renaissance Artwork and Bibliographical Clippings

Published by None c1900 -1980, Not Stated, 1900

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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA

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A handsome Birdsall half morocco binding housing photographic images of Renaissance artworks, and with further text leaves from James S. Dearden's bibliographical writings. An attractive half morocco signed binding by Birdsall, housing photographs of Renaissance works of art to the front, and clippings of the bibliographical works of James S. Dearden to the rear.With Dearden's bookplate to the rear pastedown. He was a Ruskin enthusiast credited with launching the Ruskin revival, and with advising three generations of Ruskin scholars.Pages of text from Dearden, drawn from a number of publications, have been pasted to leaves at the rear. There are seventeen pages from Dearden, with headings such as 'A Dictionary of Presses and Printers', 'Miniature Incunabula', and 'The Care of Book-Bindings'.The front of the work consists of pasted in photographs of paintings and sculptures, each with a handwritten caption.There are ninety photographs of Renaissance art, including ten portraits from Raphael, and examples of works from Titian, Leonardo da Vinci, Corregio, Bernardino Luini, Andrea del Sarto, and many others.It is evident that Dearden commandeered this binding for his own purposes at a later date than its use for images of artworks. In a signed half morocco binding, with cloth covered boards. Rubbing to joints, with light fading to cloth. Bookplate to rear pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Photographs of artworks to ninety leaves, with text clippings to seventeen leaves. Evidence of removal of text and photographs to four leaves. Pages bright, and clean. Very Good.…

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Title
Photograph Album of Renaissance Artwork and Bibliographical Clippings
Author
James S. Dearden
Publisher
None c1900 -1980, Not Stated
Publication year
1900
Condition
Very Good
Book Type
book
Binding
Leather
Illustrator
Raphael; Caravaggio; da Vinci; S. Rosa; Rembrandt; Luini et al.
Item weight
1 kilogram
Dimensions
8.5" by 7"

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