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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Very large book. Plates bright.. Year 1902. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Many have been its vicissitudes infinite its accomplishments in England between the far off days of Sandby and the days of Brabazon and Whistler of Conder and Francis James. From the old to the new how great though gradual is the transition! Again between the old and the new-between the quaint and timid on the one side and the gay and fascinating on the other-how various and honourable is the course! The quiet prose of Sandby was succeeded by the poetry of Cozens. Girtin arose to delight us for his own sake-by the quality of his own sober reticent and sterling work and to add appreciably to our debt to him by the extent of his influence on the early genius of Turner. By Cozens dead already Turner was affected hardly less. Did he not almost begin by copying his drawings at Dr. Monro’s and making there in a sitting-room in the Adelphi the entrance of his spirit into Italy? (OS)