ed. Leslie Parris — Pre-Raphaelite Papers

London, The Tate Gallery, 1988. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this collection of essays on the Pre-Raphaelites, illustrated throughout. Including writings by Stephanie Grilli, Quentin Bell, Alastair Grieve, Mary Lutyens, Lady Mander and Benedict Read, amongst others.Edited by art historian Leslie Parris, a custodian for thirty five years at the Tate Gallery.With a pictorial dust wrapper depicting detail from John Everett Millais' Isabella.Illustrated in black and white throughout. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper has slight wear to the head of the spine, but is otherwise in excellent condition. Ownership inscription in pencil to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.