The Ideal in Art
- New York: Henry Holt, 1874
New York: Henry Holt, 1874. 12mo (18cm). Publisher's deep blue cloth, with titles and decorations in gilt; brown coated endpapers; 186pp. Light wear to board edges and corners; tape repair to bottom margin of dedication leaf; neat ink ownership signature to flyleaf; a sound, unmarked, Good or better copy.
Reprints the substance of two lectures originally delivered at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, providing what is essentially a distillation of Taine's larger work, The Philosophy of Art (1865). A volume in the uniform edition of Taine's Works, issued serially from 1872-75 (approximate, based on OCLC cataloguing data).
Reprints the substance of two lectures originally delivered at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, providing what is essentially a distillation of Taine's larger work, The Philosophy of Art (1865). A volume in the uniform edition of Taine's Works, issued serially from 1872-75 (approximate, based on OCLC cataloguing data).