ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME, VOLUME III by Cook, Clarence - 1888

New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardcover. Very good. First or early edition. Vol. 2 only, devoted solely to German art, with "our time" a bit broad, since the artists considered go back to the late Middle Ages. Quarto, 13 x 10 inches, publisher's half leather and cloth boards, very good with some rubbing and wear to corners and joints, some freckling or rubbing to lower portion of the cloth on front cover, contents very good, light toning throughout. 351 pp, heavily illustrated with plates, mainly wood engraved, some steel, etc.

All pages are intact. Front cover is loose.

New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardcover. Good+ , ex-library with typical markings, light wear at cover edges, binding quite solid, internally gorgeous.. Dark red buckram. 336 pp. Profusely illustrated, steel engravings. Loose vol. III of a three volume set , about 200 pp. devoted specifically to American artists and their work. A hefty, substantive work peppered with crisp, lovely steel engravings. Excellent reference for the student or collector of 19th century works. All the steel engravings are quite suitable for framing, should that be your desire.

Selmar Hess, 1888. Good. Cook, Clarence. Art and Artists of Our Time. 3 volumes.. New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. 286, 352, [335]pp. Illustrated. 4to. Brown leather with gilt edges.. Book condition: Good with rubbed and bumped edges. Faintly lightened backstrips.. Filled with beautiful illustrated plates..

New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardcover. Good, wear at cover edges, internally gorgeous.. Dark brown cloth. appx. 400 pp. Profusely illustrated, numerous steel engravings. Apparently Volumes 2 and 3 bound together, but the order of the plates makes it hard to tell. Sold as a collection of very clean steel engravings, numbering appx. 33, all with tissue guards.

New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardbound. G (Bindings are well worn on edges and spines; hinges are good and pages are terrific, with only faint mirroring from full-page engravings to adjacent pages.). 2 vols. Three-quarter marbled boards with brown leather spines and corners, gilt letters on spines, gilt edges all around;, marbled flyleaves, 636 pp. total, hundreds of BW illus. Two volumes of a larger set devoted specifically to artists and their work. A hefty, substantive work peppered with crisp, lovely steel engravings. Excellent reference for the student or collector of 19th century works. The marble boards and flyleaves are especially exquisite, in bubbles of green, yellow and blue.

New York : Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 volume set. Bound in publisher's 3/4 leather over brown boards. Gilt ruled and lettered. All edges red. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Profusion of plates.

New York: Selmar Hess, 1888. Hardbound. G (Moderate wear and scuffs to spines and corners; outer spine of vol. 3 is separating from hinge; front board of vol. 3 has soiling patch at bottom quarter; pages have aged only lightly; engravings are clear; some wear at front inner hinges of first two vols.; may have been re-lined at flyleaves in contemporary times; a solid set in general. Leather dusting/flaking off where rubbed.). 3 vols. Black textured cloth boards with brown leather spine & corners, gilt letters and ornate gilt decorations on spines, gilt outlines on covers, gilt decorations on front covers, gilt edges all around; 974 total pp., hundreds of BW illus. A three-volume set devoted specifically to a variety of artists and their work. A hefty, substantive work peppered with crisp, lovely steel engravings. An excellent reference for the student or collector of 19th century works.

New York: Selmar Press, 1888. Illustrated with many full-page steel engravings after Doré, Gerôme, etc. 3 vols. Folio. Bound in three quarters Publisher's morocco and cloth, gilt stamped, edges red. Binding dry and splitting at the joints. Internally very fine. Illustrated with many full-page steel engravings after Doré, Gerôme, etc. 3 vols. Folio.

New York; (1888): Selmar Hess. Small Folio. In six volumes. Originally produced in parts, then produced in a small 3 volume edition. Clarence Cook was not only the first but also the foremost art critic of the last part of the 19th Century. While Europeans were disdainful of American art, he was able to show how Whistler and Gardiner were the equals of the best of Europe's artists. He founded a Pre-Raphaelite organization and led in the "Truth in Art" movement. Besides 188 full page engravings, there are hundreds of smaller ones which provide the reader with the best contemporary account of the contemporary art movement in the late 19th Century and providing for the first time examples of why America's finest artists were the equal to any others on the world stage. Rarely found complete in the six volume set. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decorated in black, lettered gilt, spines black and gilt, silk like endpapers, all edges gilt, volume one with a bit of rubbed white paint(most likely from being… Read More