London:: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street., 1860.
Physical Description
[i], v, 346 p.; 185 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[Half-title, t.p.] - Preface - [Text] - Names of Women Artists [index]; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon: 'London: R. Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill'.
Summary Note
Despite the title, the 'Early Ages' are summarised by the author in the first chapter; and the rest of the work surveys western European artists from the fifteenth century (Chapter II) to the nineteenth (Chapters XVI to XX).
The work was first published in 1859.
Copy Note
The rear pastedown carries the binder's ticket, which reads, 'Bound By Burn 37 & 38 Kirby St.'
Binding Note
19th-century blue cloth, upper and lower covers decorated in gilt and in blind; gilt-decorated spine lettered 'Women Artists - Ellet'.
Subject
Artists - Women - Europe - History
Art history - Biography - Great Britain - 19th century