By Louis Fagan
London   Field and Tuer
8" by 6" v, 128, [26], viii pp
A fantastic and thorough guide to the marks of various collector passed to F. G. Stephens, with an envelope containing a number of examples.
By Louis Fagan

1883 Collector's Marks

London   Field and Tuer
8" by 6" v, 128, [26], viii pp
A fantastic and thorough guide to the marks of various collector passed to F. G. Stephens, with an envelope containing a number of examples.
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Louis Alexander Fagan (1845-1903) was a writer, who served as Keeper of Engravings at the British Museum for two and a half decades, working in the Department of Prints and Drawings. He wrote a number of other volumes on art, such as 'History of Engraving in England', 'The Masters of Raffaello' and 'An Easy Walk through the British Museum'. 

Discoloured as usual 

This volume contains an inscription citing that it was passed to F. G. Stephens (1827-1907), a British art critic who was so dissatisfied by his own lack of artistic skill that he instead became a critic of art, although he does still have three paintings up in the Tate Gallery, London. He was the art critic and subsequently art editor for the Athenaeum between 1860 and 1901.

Contains twenty-seven examples of collectors mark's, including those of H. Defer-Demesnil, King Johann of Saxony, Jean-Louis Soulavie, Marsden J. Perry and Octaave de Behague.

Condition

In a full vellum binding. Externally a trifle rubbed, some loss from chipping to the head of the spine, which is discoloured. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown, envelope containing twenty-seven examples to the rear pastedown. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean.

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