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A Familiar Treatise on the Fine Arts: Paintings, Sculpture, and Music
by (Holbrook, Josiah)
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Boston: James B. Dow, 1834. Square 12mo. 165 x 135 mm., [6 ½ x 5 ¼ inches]. 277 pp. Original floral-patterned cloth; faded, joints showing some loss of cloth, label missing, front endpaper clipped. First edition, second issue, originally published in 1833; a second edition appeared in 1837. Rare school book, published for the education of the liberal public. According to the author, this is the first book of its kind published in America, which concentrates on the history, criticism, and interpretation of the fine arts, including paintings, sculpture and music. The author looks to Italy, Scotland, and Germany for the historical sketches he offers creates a critique based on a particularly American perspective. One of the more interesting aspects of the book is that he devotes the first two pages of Chapter XV to the works of William Blake. Page 104 is devoted to American painting.Josiah Holbrook was the founder of the Lyceum movement in American and author of numerous book and manuals on the fine and technical arts with a focus on industry and craftsmenship. This issue of the first edition not cited in OCLC. NUC cites one copy at Harvard; other issues nearly as scarce.
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- Title
- A Familiar Treatise on the Fine Arts: Paintings, Sculpture, and Music
- Author
- (Holbrook, Josiah)
- Book Condition
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- Publisher
- James B. Dow
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1834
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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