Eagles John Rev (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 398 pages. Musings on art, literature, religion and life. Ex-lib copy, but no exterior markings and only a small light stamp on title page and free endpapers - otherwise unmarked, tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bound in brown cloth with a rebacked spine. Previous owners faint inscription. With 2 engraved plates, and pencil marks within the text.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Post 8vo. Bound in blind brown cloth, heavily worn and stained with some light damage to extremities. Binding is split at front hinge. Pageblock is secure. Pages are mostly clean with some markings and light foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Contemporary owner's initials on front endpaper. Dampstains to spine and endpapers. Hinges broken. Dust stains to top page edges. Some foxing.; x, 397, [1] pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Black decoration on spine and boards. Page dimensions: 206 x 140mm. Lengthy treatise of art criticism, a dialogue between Pictor and Sketcher. "Sketcher is a rambler, and may be allowed a rambling style." - page 190. "Sir Joshua Reynolds remarks, that in historical painting often exact texture should be omitted, and that there should be drapery, only not any particular material. This principle will equally hold good frequently in landscape: as in a landscape above common pretensions no particular season will be acknowledged, so will there be, for the heightening of the general effect, a sacrifice of detail and of actual resemblance to nature in tone and colour." - pages 85-86. John Eagles, born in Bristol in 1784, was a contributor to 'Blackwood's Magazine".

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60112912: 1856. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos fané, Quelques rousseurs. 397 pages. Reliure d'éditeur verte. Dos insolé et frotté. Couverture se détachant. Pages de garde tachées. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.