Price: £125.00
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small quarto (9.5 by 7.5 inches) illustrated with 12 tinted plates and title page engraving, text of 287 pages, old half red morocco, marbled sides and end-papers, old inscription front end-paper, faint offset from frontispiece to title page, heavy offset of text leaf to last plate, covers with some rubbing, toning/darkening of some plates as in most copies, a very clean and sound copy. Richardson was a prominent portrait painter, artist and collector whose writings had a significant influence on the development of art.
Title: The Works of Jonathan Richardson containing the Theory of Painting, Essay on the Art of Criticism, The Science of a Good Connoisseur..a new edition
Categories: Art,
Publisher: London, 1792
Seller ID: 002519