French art from Watteau to Prud'hon, : together with an introduction and some studies in the social history of the period by various authors / edited by J. J. Foster ... Illustrated by a great number of fine photogravure plates ... representing the finest work of the principal painters of the eighteenth century in France.
Joshua James Foster (1847-1923)
Category
Books
Date
1905 - 1907
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101181
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : ill., ports. ; fol. Copy no. 19. Pencil note on front pastedown in vol. 1: "3 vols 23/2/43 Pub £150 gross"[?]. Pencil note on rear pastedown in vol. 1: "3 vols. A/S/-". Ephemera: Tipped-in on front free endpaper in vol. 1: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price cut out). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] in all vols. Binding: Twentieth-century full vellum; upper boards gilt lettered: 'French art from Watteau to Prud'hon' and 'Edition Royale'; recessed cords; dark green morocco spine labels, gilt lettered with title and vol. no.; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edges; pale blue ribbon markers.
Makers and roles
Joshua James Foster (1847-1923), editor