[Rarebooks] FS: Dunlap's 1834 History of American Painting & Sculpture

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States"

By William Dunlap.

Published in New York by George P. Scott and Co.: 1834.

There is not much need to pontificate at length upon the extreme
importance of Dunlap's book -it remains an invaluable reference for the
student of American painters, sculptors and miniaturists, and is the
granddaddy of all other historical surveys of the American arts, and in
many ways the foundation upon which all subsequent studies have been
based. If Dunlap had not recorded this information much, if not most, of
it would have been irretrievably lost before other researchers got around
to caring about the subject at the end of the nineteenth century.

A much-revised and very useful second edition was edited by Frank W.
Bayley and Charles Goodspeed in 1918 which contained a large amount of new
material but in which the editors also, regrettably, deleted much of the
original material. As Bayley & Goodspeed note in their 1918 preface- "The
peculiar nature of Dunlap's work -its' faulty composition, irregular
orthography, duplications, irrelevancies and prolixity- have made the
editors' office a difficult one”, and in their late-Edwardian fit of
purification they deleted such things as "extraneous anecdotes of Stuart
and Jarvis, verses by Allston, a technical treatise on miniature painting
by Cummings, and various notes of small value or ephemeral interest".

Well, one man’s “irrelevancy” is another’s bread and butter, and their
deletions guaranteed that there will always be a place for the origiinal
1834 edition on the art historian’s bookshelf.

Hardcover. 2 volumes. 6.25"x9.75", 433 + viii + 480 pages. Original board
covers with patterned cloth spines; covers with moderate wear including
some soil; spine heads and bases chipped; tips rounded; outer cloth on
Vol. 1 spine splitting; slightly shaken; moderate internal foxing, as is
so often the case.  $650.00

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