HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT EDITED BY) — The Portfolio, an Artistic Periodical.
London, Seeley & Co. Limited. 1891, First Edition. Full Leather, 14" x 10". Vol. 22; pp. vi; 260; xxvi. Full leather binding with gilt ruling on boards and spine; endpapers and page edges marbled. 36 full-page tissue guarded plates, including frontispiece, after artists such as Velazquez, Vermeer, Guercino, Hals, Turner and others; all on heavy stock. Numerous b&w text illustrations; more than 50 essays on diverse artistic topics: The Present State of the Fine Arts in France; St. Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits; Johannes Vermeer of Delft; The Salons of Baudelaire. Endpapers partly open in front, the binding is firm. Occasional mild foxing to the plate stock; margins of that stock are darkened. Spine edges, bands and corners are rubbed. Very Good/No Jacket.
