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3 vols., roy. 4to., First Editions, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and 80 fine plates, endpapers mildly browned, some light marginal spotting (not affecting text or plates); original cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt with splendid floral design in the style of art nouveau, backs richly tooled in gilt in corresponding style, boards somewhat age-marked at edges else very good, bright, firm, clean copies. Volume IV contains a useful biographical appendix and general index to the artists represented in the work as a whole. The artists included are Alma-Tadema, Bayliss, Blair-Leighton, Boughton, Bramley, Brangwyn, Brett, Burne-Jones, Burton, Butler (Lady), Caldecott, Calderon, Christie, Cole, Collier, Crane, Crowe, Dow, Draper, Fildes, Forbes, Gotch, Gow, Gregory, Greiffenhagen, Guthrie, Hemy, Herkomer, Holl, Hook, Kemp-Welch, Lavery, Lawson, Lucas, Lund, Macgregor, McTaggart, Marks, Melville, Moore (Albert), Moore (Henry), Leader, Leighton, Long, Orchardson, Pettie, Pott, Poynter, Rae, Reid, Richmond, Riviere, Roche, Sant, Sargent, Shaw, Solomon, Stanhope, Stone, Storey, Stott, Strudwick, Swan, Swynnerton, Tayler, Thangue, Tuke, Walker, Waterhouse, Whistler, Woodville, Wyllie and Yeames