The Pre-Raphaelites Hardcover - 1981

London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Review copy. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 160 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm. Notes: Illustrated endpapers. Includes bibliographical references (page 156) and index. Contents: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The origins of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood -- The Brotherhood 1848-1853 -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- John Everett Millais -- William Holman Hunt -- Followers and associates of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Ford Madox Brown -- Arthur Hughes -- Other Pre-Raphaelite followers of the 1850s -- The Pre-Raphaelite landscape -- Later years. The second phase: Pre-Raphaelite and the Aesthetic movement -- The tragic Pre-Raphaelite: the later work of Rosseti -- The faithful Pre-Raphaelite: Holman Hunt -- The palace of art: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones -- Some Pre-Raphaelite followers 1860-1920 -- John William Waterhouse -- The last phase 1890-1920 -- A personal postscript. Subjects: 1800-1899; Pre-Raphaelitism Great Britain; Painting, British; Painting, Modern 19th century; Art and literature; Pre-Raphaelitism Critical studies; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Millais, John Everett; Hunt, William Holman.