Book Information:
| Title | Ideals In Art |
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| Author | Crane, Walter |
| Publisher | George Bell And Sons, London |
| Publish Date | 1905 |
| ISBN | |
| Pages | 285 |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Notes | Walter Crane. Ideals in Art With An ALS Laid-In. George Bell & Sons, 1905. First edition. With an autograph letter signed by Crane tipped-on the half-title page. Illustrated. Quarter-leather over cloth, top edge gilt. Boards soiled and toned; corners bumped; contents with occasional light foxing; contemporary gift inscription on the flyleaf, else very good. From the Collection of Judith Adelman. George Bell & Sons, London, 1905. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, xiv, 287 pp., illus., index; 24 cm. Top edge gilt. Printed at Chiswick Press. Of the arts and crafts movement: its general tendency and possible outcome; Of the teaching of art; Of methods of art teaching; Note on Tolstoi's "What is art?"; Of the influence of modern social and economic conditions on the sense of beauty; Of the social and ethical bearings of art; Of ornament and its meaning; Thoughts on house-decoration; Of the progress of taste in dress in relation to art education; Of temporary street decorations; Of the treatment of animal forms in decoration and heraldry; Of the designing of book-covers; Of the use of gilding in decoration of raised work in gesso; The relation of the easel picture of decorative art; A great artist in a literary searchlight. Retail: $50 to 150.00. Tipped in Autograph letter from author should bring at least $250.00 |
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| TRRF Call No. | DE-00057R |
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