The Works.
The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, knight; late president of the Royal Academy. Containing his discourses, idlers, a journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting… to which is prefixed an account of the life and writings of the author. By Edmond Malone, Esq. one of his executors. The fourth edition, corrected.
London: Cadell and Davies, 1809.
Three volumes, octavo, aquatint frontispiece; a fine set 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 an elegant and 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 an elegant and 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.
The frontispiece is Reynolds's self-portrait, engraved by Caroline Watson.
not in Lowndes.
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