Henry F Holt (Signed Copy) — Rubens a Sculptor

Printed For Private Circulation By D.F Oakley This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in originalk blue/mauve coloured cloth with gilt title lettering to spine with scroll design borders stamped in blind to both upper and lower covers.Original star patterned endpapers present.There is a SIGNED presentation inscription by Henry F Holt to the Half Title Page and he is the likely Author of this work.All page edges are in gilt.This scarce work includes 4 monochrome plates of Rubens work mounted on red lined border pages.there is some foxing present to the margins of pages and to the verso of the illustrations.Binding remains firm with no hinge weakness. Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement,colour and sensuality.He is well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp which produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically-educated humanist scholar, art collector, and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, king of Spain, and Charles I, king of England.8vo 24pp Very Good No Jacket First Edition 1st Printing London 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall