Ernest Rhys F. G. Stephens SIR FREDERIC LEIGHTON 1895 Tightly Limited Deluxe Folio Edition Vellum Art History Tissue Guarded Plates Photogravures

Title: Sir Frederic Leighton Bart., P.R.A. - An Illustrated Chronicle
Author: Ernest Percival Rhys - Ernest Percival Rhys was a Welsh-English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays. In 1906, Rhys persuaded J. M. Dent, the publisher for whom he was working on The Lyric Poets series, to start out on the ambitious Everyman project, aiming to publish 1000 titles; the idea was to put out ten at a time. The target was eventually reached, ten years after Rhys died. , Frederic George Stephens - Frederic George Stephens was a British art critic, and one of the two 'non-artistic' members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His contributions to the Brotherhood's magazine, “The Germ,†were made under the pseudonyms Laura Savage and John Seward. During this time he was heavily influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whom he allowed to write reviews of his own work under Stephens's name. Among the artists about whom he wrote were Thomas Bewick, Edward Burne-Jones, George Cruikshank, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, Edwin Landseer, William Mulready, Samuel Palmer, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Rowlandson, Sir Anthony van Dyck, and Thomas Woolner. Stephens' conservative views on modern art and his strong dislike of Impressionism ended his forty-year association with the Athenaeum.
Publisher: George Bell & Sons
City: London
Year: 1895
Printing Information: Limited Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: unpaginated
Width: 10.25" Height: 15.5"
Book Details: This elaborately bound, massive volume is a copy from a tightly limited edition of only 85 copies of which this is copy number 61. A vellum spine meets patterned cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and embellishing to the spine and boards. The text is lavishly illustrated with carefully produced plates on heavy stock.

From the Publisher's Note:

"Although the works of Sir Frederic Leighton have been shown year by year at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, and many of them illustrated from time to time in various publications, this is the first attempt to reproduce a sufficient number to form an adequate illustrated record of his career from the first important picture of 'Cimabue's Madonna carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence,' to the 'Phoenicians bartering with Britons,' a wall-painting, lately presented by the artist to the Royal Exchange. By the gracious consent of H.M. the Queen, the 'Cimabue,' in the Buckingham Palace collection is now for the first time reproduced by photogravure, as are fourteen others"
Condition / Notes: This large handsome volume shows beautifully with some mild external signs of wear and age. The pages and plates are clean and bright with some light edge toning to textual pages. The text block is separated form the binding at the mull, thus merely requiring new adhesive between the intact mull and the signatures. Some of the pages show some narrow curling/chipping at the tips of the fore edges.

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