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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849 These two volumes are in VERY GOOD CONDITION, bound in half burgundy leather, with gilt lettering. Covers show edge wear with discoloration and leather flaking. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. Interior has foxing. ENGRAVINGS THROUGHOUT.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849. ~Original dark green cloth to boards. 20th-century rebacking in attractive polished dark brown calf. Raised bands, gilt decor, and two black gilt labels per spine. Small white splash mark to front board of vol. I. Most board corners slightly pushed in. Mild foxing and browning to page edges. Small 4tos (19.7 x 27cm). Hinges sound. Replacement endpapers uncracked at gutters. Cracking at gutter before first leaf of text in vol. III, and starting at gutter before final leaf of text in vols II & III. Scattered foxing throughout; considerable foxing to pp. 17-40 in vol. III only. Portrait frontis to vol. I by W. H. Worthington after F. X. Fabre, and to vol. III by Henry Moses after Luigi Azimonti. Offset browning to title page of vol. I. 40pp. 'Biographical Memoir' to start of vol. I and 57pp. supplement to the Memoir and 'Thoughts on the Arts' by Canova, collected by his friend the Abate Missirini, to vol. III. Otherwise unpaginated. Profusely illustrated… Read More