Mrs Jameson

Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts

Longman's Green and Co., 1880. 8vo, quarter saddle brown leather over brown cloth, green endpapers, top edge gilt, 461pp. Sixth edition. Apparent reinforcement to binding, tipped in frontispiece. Ownership markings to preliminary pages, fading to leather, discreet toning and rubbing to pages. "Forming the Second Series of Sacred Art and Legendary Art." A history of Western monasticism told through painting, from the Benedictines, Augustinians, Royal and Mendicant Orders through to the Jesuits. With black and white illustrations, sepia plates. A nice copy. Very Good.

Price: $30.00