C. Haldane McFall; T. Leman Hare [ed.] — Beautiful Children Immortalised by the Masters

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company , 1909. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition of this large paper collection of children's portraits from famous paintings. Featuring fifty reproductions in colour of famous paintings of children, including some by Lawrence, Mabuse, Van Dyck, Moreelse, Rembrandt, Rigaud, and many others. Collated, complete. Text by C. Haldane McFall with discussions on childhood, and the Flemish, Dutch, Spanish, German, French, and British schools of art. Edited by T. Leman Hare. Haldane McFall was a British army officer later known as an authoritative art critic as well as illustrator. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with decorative gilt to front board and back strip, colourful illustration to front board. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine, back strip darkened with light minor marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .