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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1871. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> RARELY are to be found combined in one individual the RAR qualifications of the literary man the artist and the archwo-logist. The last may be able to use both pen and pencil yet the latter only in such a way as to entitle him to the character of an antiquarian draughtsman; while the artist or the painter may have a literary taste though it is seldom called into action; and he may also have arrived at such an amount of arch?ological attainment as will enable him to bring it to bear upon his art but not beyond it. In the late F. W. FAIRHOLT however these three accomplishments showed themselves in a very remarkable manner. He certainly does not come under the denomination of a painter for we do not think he ever used a brush and colour since his early days when he began life as a scene-painter except perhaps in making a few sketches as memoranda; yet the black-lead pencil in his hand was an instrument employed to good and profitable purpose in an infinite variety of ways-landscapes buildings figure-subjects and ornamental objects of every kind. (SP)