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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Newnes' Art Library Series. First impression of the true first edition. Circa 1907. Sixty-four full-page black and white plates including sepia frontispiece showing: 'The Rider of the White Horse'. Detailed twelve-page biography by W. K. West and twelve-page introduction on the art of George Frederick Watts by Romualdo Pantin to the fore. ***Very good in buff boards with gilt titles and small art-nouveau scroll gilt decoration to cream vellum spine, and brown, black and green decorative publisher's 'art-nouveau' illustration to front board, to the half-title and title-page vignettes, respectively. Edges of boards faded and rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Boards rubbed. Scuff and loss to outer board at top of front board. Cream vellum spine discoloured with very small paint splashes. Head and tail of spine rubbed, creased and nicked. Top edge of first few prelim-pages browned from old brown water marks not affecting other pages. Offsetting to front and rear endpapers. An old newspaper review loosely inserted to the fore. Interior pages clean. All sixty-four plates including the tipped-in plates on thin grey card-pages, present, as called for. Plates clean. No foxing to plates. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***xxxi- prelim pages including twelve-page The Art of George Frederick Watts by Romualdo Pantini and twelve-page biography of George Frederick Watts by W. K. West, with black and white art-nouveau chapter-heads and letter-heads. Unpaginated. 64 full-page plates. 242mm x 178 mm. ***List of plate illustrations: Rider on the White Horse; Uldra; Britomart; Daphne; The Meeting of Jacob and Esau; The Watchman; Hyperion; Building the Ark; Life's illusions; Hon. Mrs. Percy Wyndham; The Rider of the Red Horse; Psyche; Paolo and Francesca; Conscience, the Sweller in the Innermost; The Creation of Eve; Eve Tempted; Eve Penitent; Ariadne; The Happy Warrior; Fata Morgana; Condottierre; Lady Godiva; The Prodigal Son; A Bacchanal; Hope; Love Steering the Boat of Humanity; Prometheus; Aspirations; Europa; Greed and Labour; Lady Garvagh; Fata Morgana; Sir Galahad; Lady with Mirror; Love and Death; Nixie; Death of Abel; G. F. Watts, R.A.; Birth of Eve; Orpheus and Eurydice; Ophelia; The Spirit of Christianity; The Good Samaritans; Lady Lilford; Love Triumphant; Love and lIfe; Lord Tennyson; Cruel Vengeance; The Minotaur; Birth of Eve; Charity; Mischief; Time, Death and Judgement; The Childhood of Jupiter; Mrs. Nassau senior; Ida on Mount Olympus; Samson; Mammon; Ariadne in Naxos; Una and the Red Cross Knight; Experientia Docet; Mid-day Rest; Endymion; Orpheus and Eurydice; When Poverty comes in at the Door. ***George Frederic Watts, OM RA (1817 - 1904) was a Symbolist painter and sculptor: "I paint ideas, not things." He became best-known in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language. ***First impression of the true first edition. All sixty-four plates present, as called for. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. George Frederick Watts (illustratore). …