The Royal Academy.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

10/2958

Author

Imprint

London: E.T. Whitfield, 178, Strand, W.C., 1876.

Physical Description

9, [3] pages ; 21 cm.

General Note

Front wrapper repeats title, imprint and year of publication in single-rule border, with 'Price Sixpence.' added at foot.

The printer is named at the foot of page 9: Woodfall & Kinder, Printers, Milford Lane, Strand, London, W.C.

Summary Note

Reprints and comments upon 'Extracts From Leading Articles In The Press, On Debate In House Of Commons, 9th May, 1876.' calling for reform of the 'narrow basis' of the Academy's 'self-elected Senate of Art' (p.4). See also the similar-format anonymous critiques The Royal Academy and the Hanging Committee (1874) and The Royal Academy (1875), both published by E.T. Whitfield and quite probably for the same author (or 'authors') as the present item.

Immediate source of Acquisition

Copy 1: Provenance untraced.
Copy 2: Purchased from, Mrs. Pamela Myers on, 12 December 2008

Copy Note

Copy 2: Lacks the publisher's paper wrappers. With library stamp of the Crichton Club on title-page and p. 9. Front pastedown inscribed in pencil: L. V. Fildes / London / 1907.

Binding Note

Copy 1: Publisher's grey-blue paper wrappers.
Copy 2: Late 19th-century morocco-grained maroon cloth (faded). Bound up with copies of: The Royal Academy and the Hanging Committee (London: E T. Whitfield, 1876); and A Rap at the R.A.: a satire [by John Edward Soden] (London: J. A. Brook & Co., 1875).

Name as Subject

Royal Academy of Arts (London)

Contributors

E.T. Whitfield, publisher
Woodfall and Kinder (London), printer