COSWAY-STYLE BINDING -- MANSON, James A. Sir Edwin Landseer R.A. London and New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co. and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 8° (175 x 125mm). Photogravure frontispiece and 21 plates. Full morocco, by Riviere and Son, spine and sides richly gilt with floral tools, turn-ins with gilt rules and corners, upper cover with a central miniature oval painting of a stag, surrounded by eight round paintings of various breeds of dogs, among them a setter, spaniels, and a greyhound, lower cover with a central oval portrait of Landseer, all under glass, gilt edges (front joint just starting). Provenance : 'Friedrick von Eckstein from his wife Catharine. Christmas 1904' (neat inscription on front blank). Landseer (1802-1873) was one of the most popular British artists of the time, pre-eminent as a painter of dogs, but also well known for his scenes of deer and deer-hunting, such as The Monarch of the Glen - all elements captured in the miniatures adorning this binding. John Ruskin not usually an admirer, described Landseer's The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner as 'one of the most perfect poems or pictures... which modern times have seen... a work of high art, [which] stamps its author, not as the near imitator of the texture of a skin, or the fold of a drapery, but as the Man of Mind' (Ruskin, 3.88-9, quoted in DNB ).
COSWAY-STYLE BINDING -- MANSON, James A. Sir Edwin Landseer R.A. London and New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co. and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 8° (175 x 125mm). Photogravure frontispiece and 21 plates. Full morocco, by Riviere and Son, spine and sides richly gilt with floral tools, turn-ins with gilt rules and corners, upper cover with a central miniature oval painting of a stag, surrounded by eight round paintings of various breeds of dogs, among them a setter, spaniels, and a greyhound, lower cover with a central oval portrait of Landseer, all under glass, gilt edges (front joint just starting). Provenance : 'Friedrick von Eckstein from his wife Catharine. Christmas 1904' (neat inscription on front blank). Landseer (1802-1873) was one of the most popular British artists of the time, pre-eminent as a painter of dogs, but also well known for his scenes of deer and deer-hunting, such as The Monarch of the Glen - all elements captured in the miniatures adorning this binding. John Ruskin not usually an admirer, described Landseer's The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner as 'one of the most perfect poems or pictures... which modern times have seen... a work of high art, [which] stamps its author, not as the near imitator of the texture of a skin, or the fold of a drapery, but as the Man of Mind' (Ruskin, 3.88-9, quoted in DNB ).
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