Condition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use. Burgundy Marbled boards and endpapers with maroon leather spine and corners. Decorative gilt design and lettering on spine. Gilded top edge. Spine ends and corners show wear. Front marbeled endpaper has some chips of paper missing at the edge. See images for the condition of this book. Beautiful book with lots of beautiful art! RARE find for any collector!
Blurb: The Life of Our Lord in Art: With Some Account of the Artistic Treatment of the Life of St. John the Baptist
Excerpt from The Life of Our Lord in Art: With Some Account of the Artistic Treatment of the Life of St. John the Baptist
As to the particular pictures used, many considerations guided the choice, the primary object being to present an historical set of pictures properly illustrative of the text, and to represent therein the greatest names of the history of art. As there are about fourteen subjects from Christ's life which date from a very early period in the Christian era, examples of all these primitive compositions are reproduced to show the germ from which was evolved the final type composition.