2V George William Sheldon RECENT IDEALS OF AMERICAN ART 1890 Antique Art History Decorative Leather Binding Paris Copper Plate Engravings Goupil Photogravure Typogravure Appleton
Title: Recent Ideals of American Art
Author: George William Sheldon - George William Sheldon was an American author and photographer. His books on architecture include Artistic Houses (1883-84), Artistic Country Seats (1886-87).

Sheldon was born in Summerville, South Carolina, 28 January, 1843. He was graduated at Princeton in 1863, and served during 1864 at City Point, Virginia, in charge of the sick and wounded of General Grant's army. In 1865 he was appointed tutor in Latin and belles-lettres in Princeton, and in 1869 he became instructor in the oriental languages at Union theological seminary, New York, where he remained until 1873, after which he studied for two years in the British museum. Mr. Sheldon then devoted himself to journalistic work and was art critic of the New York "Evening Post" in 1876-'82, and dramatic critic and city editor of the New York " Commercial Advertiser" in 1884-'6. He has published " American Painters" (New York, 1879) ; " The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York" (1882) ; "Hours with Art and Artists" (1882) ; "Artistic Homes " (1882) ; "Artistic Country -Seats " (1886); "Selections in Modern Art" (1886) ; and "Recent Ideals of American Art" (1888).
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
City: New York
Year: 1890
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes
Width: 12.5" Height: 16.5"
Book Details: This antique large format set of two volumes is bound in red leather with gilt lettering and tooling on the spines and inside borders, also with raised bands, gilt page edges and marbled endpapers.

One volume carries 175 engraved tissue guarded plates and the second volume is strictly text with inserted images.

The volume of plates features “one-hundred and seventy-five oil paintings and water colors in the galleries of private collectors, reproduced in Paris on copper plates by Goupil photogravure and typogravure progresses.”

Condition / Notes: This oversized antique leatherbound set shows nicely with gilt lettering and tooling on the spines and inside borders, also with raised bands, gilt page edges and marbled endpapers.

The books show some age/wear externally concentrated at the extremities, including boards that are separated and present and a partially detached spine cover on the plates volume.

The bindings are tight and secure, the plates and text are clean and show vibrantly.

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