The Sketcher
by Eagles, John (Rev.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner's initials on front endpaper. Dampstains to spine and endpapers. Hinges broken. Dust stains to top page edges. Some foxing.; x, 397, [1] pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Black decoration on spine and boards. Page dimensions: 206 x 140mm. Lengthy treatise of art criticism, a dialogue between Pictor and Sketcher. "Sketcher is a rambler, and may be allowed a rambling style." - page 190. "Sir Joshua Reynolds remarks, that in historical painting often exact texture should be omitted, and that there should be drapery, only not any particular material. This principle will equally hold good frequently in landscape: as in a landscape above common pretensions no particular season will be acknowledged, so will there be, for the heightening of the general effect, a sacrifice of detail and of actual resemblance to nature in tone and colour." - pages 85-86. John Eagles, born in Bristol in 1784, was a contributor to 'Blackwood's Magazine". .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17919
- Title
- The Sketcher
- Author
- Eagles, John (Rev.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1856
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Gilt
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