Daedalus; or, The Causes and Principles of the Excellence of Greek Sculpture

Falkener, Edward

Published by Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, London, 1860

About this Item

8vo. [11], xiv-xxiii, [2], 2-322, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red publisher's cloth with gilt decorations on the boards and spine, each board with a gilt inset decoration; all edges gilt. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Title page with a small engraving. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fourteen plates (several of which are sepia-tone photographs), and several in-text drawings. The photographs depict some of antiquity's most famous sculptures, like the Minerva Borghese, the Laocoon, the Herculaneum Minerva, the Apollo Belvedere, the Venus de' Medici, and others. A beautifully made book, with a decorative binding and vivd illustrations. Front hinge neatly repaired, a contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown and some foxing to the leaves. Seller Inventory # 000011215

Bibliographic Details

Title: Daedalus; or, The Causes and Principles of ...

Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, London

Publication Date: 1860

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Very Good

Edition: First edition.