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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1898. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> ALTHOUGH the works of Sir Frederic Leighton have been shown year by year at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy and many of them illustrated from time to time in various publications this is the first attempt to reproduce a sufficient number to form an adequate illustrated record of his career from the first im- portant picture of Cimabue’s Madonna carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence to the Ph?nicians bartering with Britons a wall-painting lately presented by the artist to the Royal Exchange. By the gracious consent of H.M. the Queen the Cimabue in the Buckingham Palace collection is now for the first time reproduced by photogravure as are fourteen others the property of Lord Davey Lord Hillingdon Lord Rosebery Mrs. Dyson- Perrin Mr. A. Morrison Sir Bernhard Samuelson and the Pre- sident and Council of the Royal Academy. Other paintings (reproduced in Swantype) include examples in the possession of Lady Hall? Mr. Alex. Henderson Mr. Leathart Mr. Francis Reckitts Mr. Henry Tate the Birmingham and Manchester Corporations and others to whom thanks are most cordially offered. To Sir Frederic Leighton himself for a large number of studies and sketches hitherto unpublished especial gratitude is due from the publishers and from the author of the illustrated chronicle; who wishes to record here his appreciation of the above assistance and also to acknowledge a special debt to Mr. S. Pepys Cockerell for his aid in reading and revising the proofs; to Mr. M. H. Spielmann for permission to use his admirable account of the P.R.A.’s method of painting and to the late Mr. John Underhill who unhappily died just at the time when his promised collaboration would have begun to take effect and whose loss has told in in many ways upon these pages. By arrangement with the holders of several important copy. (MP)