Victoria Manners; G C Williamson — Angelica Kauffmann

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition of Victoria Manners and G C Williamson's biography of Swiss painter Angelica Kauffmann. The first, limited edition of 1924 of this extensive biography of Angelica Kauffmann by Victoria Manners and C G Williamson. One of one thousand copies printed for sale in Great Britain and the United States, out of series. Kauffmann was a Swiss Neoclassical painter, remembered for her historical paintings, as well as her beautiful landscapes and portraits, as well for being one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768. This volume written by Lady Victoria Manners (daughter of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland) and C G Williamson, explores her whole life from birth to death, and the history of her work. The realisation of this book was prompted by the discovery in the RA archives of a manuscript in Kauffmann's handwriting, written in Italian, which gives an account of Kauffmann's paintings post-1781. This document is included in this volume, translated by Donna Stella Vitelleschi. With some insightful and thorough appendices including the newly discovered document containing the list of the painting executed by Angelica after she left England, translated from the Italian, some pictures by Angelica in America, and some etchings by Kauffmann among others. Illustrated with seventy nine full page plates in colour and in black and white. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding over paper covered boards. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities as well as a faint minor spotting to the spine. With a minor rubbing to the paper on the front board. E Lynton Vicars' bookplate tot he front pastedown, undated. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor adhesive marking to the front free endpaper, and the occasional minor faint spotting to the odd leaf, particularly to the first and last few, although, generally, the pages are bright and clean throughout. Some leaves are unopened. Illustrated with seventy nine full page plates in colour and in black and white. Collated, complete. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .