Life of Gainsborough

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London.

BINDING

Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and embossed design.

BOOK CONDITION
Good for age, boards have some general shelf wear and a few small marks on back cover. Hinges a little weak with splits both front and back, but binding feels secure otherwise. Browning to frontispiece and title page, but the other illustration and printed pages remain largely clear and little marked. Previous owner's name on flyleaf.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
Second edition1856, Revised and edited by the son of the author.

DESCRIPTION
Frontispiece engraving depicting "Gainsborough's First Attempt at Portrait Painting. The other shows his birth place of Sudbury. Appendix lists and descriptions of Gainsborough's known works. 242 pp. Small volume 12 x 17.5cm.

SYNOPSIS
First published nearly seventy years after Gainsborough's burial, a detailed life of the most eminent of portrait artists.