LArtiste. Journal de La Littérature et des Beaux-Arts. 1st Series, Volume XIII
Hardcover
1837 · Paris
by French Art Journal]
Paris: Achille Ricourt, 1837. Hardcover. Good. 401pp., 8.5 x 11.25, French text. Starting as a weekly-illustrated journal, LArtiste waspublished in Paris from 1831–1904, supplying "the richest single source of contemporary commentary on artists, exhibitions and trends from the Romantic era to the end of the nineteenth century. Presumably, the most important and innovative French fine arts journalencompassing: literature, architecture, sculpture, painting, engraving and music. TYPOGRAPHIE LACRAMPE ET COMP., RUE DAMIETTE, 2. Full page, decorative illustration preceding the Title page and signed in stone Albert Durer. Richly decorated with 50 single-leaf engravings (vertical and horizontal, most protected by tissue) sometimescorresponding to the adjacent text. Good with the leather spine and marble covered boards rubbed, with corners and edges bumped. Some pages thumbed with moderate foxing and soiling throughout; wrinkled and lightly worn early and late pages. Rear hinge split. Engravings generally clean and bright when protected by tissue. (Inventory #: KC16640)