C. R. Leslie — Life and Letters of John Constable

London , Chapman and Hall , 1896. Cloth. A new edition of this biography of landscape painter John Constable, with illustrations. A new edition of this work. John Constable was an English landscape painter during the Romantic Movement. Many of his landscapes, of which he is famous, are of the Suffolk countryside where he was born and lived. This volume is a biography of life, including his letters and illustrations of his pictures and sketches. With three portraits and forty-two illustrations. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with some marks to the boards and fading to the spine. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Both hinges are starting but remain firm. Front free endpaper is loosening from the binding. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good . Ill.: John Constable. Good .