THE GRAMMAR OF PAINTING AND ENGRAVING: Translated from the French of Blanc's Grammaire des Arts du Dessin by Kate Newell Doggett, with the Original Illustrations
Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company, 1879. Third Edition. Hardcover. The French art critic Charles Blanc (1813-82) contributed to color theory through his further development of the laws of simultaneous contrast originally put forth by Michel Eugène Chevreul and Eugène Delacroix. His writings were very important in their influence of the Chromoluminarism and Neo-Impressionism movements, and were studied by artists of that period including Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gaugin, and Georges Seurat. Octavo: xx, 330 pp. with the color chart frontispiece, a chromolithograph with tissue guard, as well as 14 full-page plates and 28 textual illustrations and vignettes, all wood engravings. In the publisher's terra cotta dotted line cloth binding, with beveled boards; black-stamped borders, ruled and dentil bands, fleur de lis ornament, and titling on the front panel; black-stamped ruled and ornamental bands and ivy decorations, and gilt-stamped rules and titling on the spine; and a blind-stamped repetition, save for the titling, on the rear panel. All edges trimmed, with black coated endpapers. Just a hint of foxing, with a period presentation inscription to the prefatory blank leaf. The spine is ever so slightly toned. Better than very good. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Item #79030
Price: $200.00