[Rarebooks] FS: Arts&Crafts 19th C. The Artist. An Illustrated Monthly

[Deborah Pendleton]

THE ARTIST. AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY RECORD OF ARTS CRAFTS, AND INDUSTRIES. London: Vols.XIX and XX [Feb-Dec 1897 (The Jan. issue recalled by the publisher due to a unfavorable and unsubstantiated article “The Nudity Boom.” Inclusion of Frederick Sandy’s work in this spot.) Vols. XXI, XXII and XXIII [Jan-Dec.1898]; & XXIV, XXV, and XXVI [1899]. Bound as three volumes. 

Lavishly illustrated, many on plates with tissue guards and some in color. Thick 4tos. (approx. 11-1/4 x 8 inches) in full red buckram with stamped in gilt and blind on front covers and gilt reverse crane on front covers. Top edges gilt. Light edgewear and covers a little dusty. A few original graphics in the 1898 volume. Includes regular columns: “Our Art Centers;” “Designer Jottings;” and “Aids to Photographers.” There is detailed information on recent Art Sales and Art Notes, Arts & Crafts Exhibitions and Competitions, reviews of recently published books on the arts, and updates on numerous Societies and Associations. 

There are many articles regarding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as individual artists and as a movement; as well as monographs and features of artists: Oliver Madox Brown; A.T. Nowell; Lester Sutcliffe; Cecilia Beaux; Beatrice Parsons; K. W. Diefenbach; John Charlton; W. J. Neataby; John Henry Lorimer; Jean Francois Millet; Emile Claus; Heinrich Vogeler; Charles William Bartlett; Fred Mayor; Fannie Moodie; Charles Cottet; Julius Rolshoven; William Hyde; Lucien Monod; Patten Wilson; Arthur Hacker; Albert Dammouse; A. Wallace Rimington; Laurence Housman; edmond Van Hove; John Duncan; A. Stuart Wortley; G. P. Jacomb-Hood; Max Klinger; James J. Guthrie; Henry Ryland; Jules Cheret; A. J. Warne-Browne; Michael Munkacsy; Frank Brangwyn; Fred Walker; Robert Sauber; Henri Marpignies; Archibald Thorburn; John Ruskin; Harrington Mann; Fernand Khnopff; Charles P. Sainton; Victor Prouve; Leon L’Hermitte; Felicien Rops; Arthur Trevethin Nowell; Fix Masseau; Harry M. Furse; &c, &c. 

There is a broad spectrum of arts & crafts reported on from all over Europe including  painting, metal work, sculpture, glass &  ceramics, book binding, stained and painted glass, textiles and embroidery, works in burnt wood, wrought iron, furniture and architectural design, wallpaper, stenciled fabrics, wood carving, leather work, photography, &c&c. Articles include: [Book Binding] “Decorative Achievements of Pyrography” (Poker-Work); Cover Designs of Miss Ida Moberley;” “Transformation of Photography by the Gum Method” with photographic illus. by Demachy, Kuhn &c.; "Evolution of the Poster" (Belgian Posters); "Some American Posters" (including a assessment of Ethel Reed); "Whistler vs Eden" (a recounting of the contentious trial) with a full-page sketch of Whistler by L. Pelligrini; Mrs. Blount & Peasant Tapestry; Illustrated Post Cards by Marian Gardiner; Grotesque Pottery of B. G. Vulliamy; Gordon Craig’s “Miss Ellen Terry as Ophelia;” Joseph Wolf Nature Studies; The Glaspalast Exhibition; Randolph Caldecott; The Younger Madox Browns; Industrial Art in Glasgow, Dutch Pottery; Chinese Porcelain, Terra-cotta, Modern German Sculpture; Russian Decorative Art; &c.&c.     $250


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Deborah Pendleton

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