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YOUNG, Edward.

Pre-Raffaellitism;

or, A Popular Enquiry into some newly-asserted principles connected with the philosophy, poetry, religion, and revolution of art.

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857

Stock code: 35160

Price: £350 Currency Conversion

First edition of this book-length critique of the pre-Raphaelites and Ruskin's critical writings.

Octavo. Original pink morocco-grain cloth, sides blocked in black with wide borders enclosing central oval, spine with leaf motifs at head and tail in black, lettered gilt, brown endpapers, pastedowns printed with advertisements, Edmonds & Remnants binder's ticket. Woodcut illustration in the text. Spine darkened and a little worn at ends, a very good, firm copy.

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