Item #3002016 The Works. Sir Joshua REYNOLDS.

The Works.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1809.

Three volumes, octavo, aquatint frontispiece portrait; fine in contemporary sprinkled calf, spines simply ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering pieces and circular green volume labels.

Reynolds on painting, in a "chaste" binding

Fourth edition, corrected, in a restrained contemporary binding: the works of Sir Joseph Reynolds, the most influential of eighteenth-century English painters. This attractive set includes the famous Discourses of Reynolds: 'a classic of our language … a model of art criticism' (Cambridge History of English Literature).

Fourth edition, corrected, in a restrained contemporary binding: the works of Sir Joseph Reynolds, the most influential of eighteenth-century English painters. This attractive set includes the famous Discourses of Reynolds: 'a classic of our language … a model of art criticism' (Cambridge History of English Literature).

Also included is Mason's translation of du Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting' with Reynolds's commentary, and a life of Reynolds by Edmond Malone.

not in Lowndes.

Price (AUD): $2,850.00

US$1,856.96   Other currencies

Ref: #3002016