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Author: Coleman, Charles
Title: A Series of Subjects Peculiar to the Campagna of Rome and Pontine Marshes
Place Published: Rome
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Date Published: 1850
Description:

53 engraved illustrations on 35 plates interleaved with protective tissue . (folio) 52.5x37 cm (20½x14½"), calf-backed boards with spine lettered, ruled, and ornamented in gilt also with gilt stamp to front board First Edition.

Charles Coleman (1807-1874 was a British painter and printmaker who lived and worked in Rome. Dismissive of academic teaching, he believed that observation from nature was the best education, hence the subtitle to this collection: "Designed from Nature and Etched by C. Coleman". Credited with founding the "Campagna Romana" school of painting in Italy. A few newspaper clippings laid in.

Binding worn, spine ends bumped, corners fraying; several plates affected by bump to spine head; foxing in plate margins and on interleaved tissue, a few of which are not present; about very good.