Daedalus; or, The Causes and Principles of the Excellence of Greek Sculpture
London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xiv-xxiii, [2], 2-322, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red publisher's cloth with gilt decorations on the boards and spine, each board with a gilt inset decoration; all edges gilt. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Title page with a small engraving. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fourteen plates (several of which are sepia-tone photographs), and several in-text drawings. The photographs depict some of antiquity's most famous sculptures, like the Minerva Borghese, the Laocoon, the Herculaneum Minerva, the Apollo Belvedere, the Venus de' Medici, and others. A beautifully made book, with a decorative binding and vivd illustrations. Near Very Good. Item #000011215
Front hinge neatly repaired, a contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown and some foxing to the leaves.
Price: $250.00