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
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101181.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : ill., ports. ; fol. Copy no. 19. Pencil note on front pastedown: "3 vols 23/2/43 Pub £150 gross"[?]. Pencil note on rear pastedown: "3 vols. A/S/-". Ephemera: Tipped-in on front free endpaper: 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full vellum; upper board gilt lettered: 'French art from Watteau to Prud'hon' and 'Edition Royale'; sewn onto five recessed cords; dark green morocco spine label, gilt lettered with title and vol. no.; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; pale blue ribbon markers.
Makers and roles
Joshua James Foster (1847-1923), editor