Description
First edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds as a Portrait Painter by J. Churton Collins, complete with 20 full-page engravings.
Folio, [unpaginated]. Full red morocco, title in gilt on spine, six raised bands with decorative gilt compartments. Decorative gilt turn-ins and board edges. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Bound by Francis Bedford of London. A few points of rubbing to boards, wear to top corners. Complete with 20 full-page engravings by Valentine Green, Thomas Watson, F.R. Smith, E. Fisher and others. A beautiful binding.