An Inquiry into the Rise and Establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts. To which is prefixed, A Letter to the Earl of Bute
by STRANGE, Robert
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- Hardcover
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Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly 1775, 1775. First (and seemingly only) edition. 8vo (172x100mm). pp. vi, [2], 141, [1 bl]. Quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards. Some rubbing to corners and joints but a very nice copy and internally excellent. Sir Robert Strange (1721-1792) was a Scottish engraver. Well connected, although with a tendency to fall out with potential patrons, he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists. A dispute in the Society led to the founding of the Royal Academy from which printers were excluded, save as associate members, an invitation declined by Strange and his engraver colleagues. The present book is the platform for Strange's grievances. He then abandoned England for a spell in France. However, Strange's exclusion from the RA seems to have done him little harm professionally. On his return to England in 1780, he gained access to the Royal Collection, producing celebrated engravings of two works by van Dyck and Benjamin West's The Apotheosis of the Royal Children for which he received a knighthood from George III.
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- Bookseller
- Voewood Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3913
- Title
- An Inquiry into the Rise and Establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts. To which is prefixed, A Letter to the Earl of Bute
- Author
- STRANGE, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly 1775
- Date Published
- 1775
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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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- Calf
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