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Elements Of Art, A Poem; In Six Cantos; With Notes And A Preface; Including Strictures On The State Of The Arts, Criticism, Patronage, And Public Taste. By Martin Archer Shee, R.A.

Sir Martin Archer Shee PRA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/3596

Author

Imprint

London:: Printed For William Miller, Albemarle-Street, By W. Bulmer And Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's., 1809.

Physical Description

xxviii, [4], 400 p.; 212 mm. (Octavo.)

Contents

[Half-t., t.p.] - Preface - [Text]; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The printer's name is repeated in the colophon.

Summary Note

This work is a continuation of Shee's Rhymes on Art.

Provenance

A front endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'The Bequest of Sr. A.W. Callcott.'

Copy Note

Occasional marginal annotation in pencil in an unknown hand.

Binding Note

19th-century half calf, brown cloth-covered boards; brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Shee's Elements Of Art.', spine lettered 'R.A.'

Subject

Art - Arts - Aesthetics - Painting
Art - Arts - Great Britain - History - 19th century
English poetry - Didactic poetry - Art criticism - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors