222 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates + 2 colour plates. Errata slip tipped in on dedicaton page. "(P)ortraits, drawn largely from hitherto unpublished material, of two distinguished painters. The author has chosen them as his subjects first of all because they were fascinating personalties. Palmer, the friend of Blake, was a mystic and nature lover, naive, quaint and profound and his life story was at once a tragedy and a spiritual triumph; Burne-Jones, the neo-Pre-Raphaelite, was a famous social figure and in himself a strange and charming blend of romantic dreamer and puckish humourist. The book is also a study of the problems facing poetic and spiritually-minded artists in an age which was Philistine, materialist and of growing religous doubt; and of how these problems affected their art." Scattered small light foxing marks on edges of illustration pages - mainly on fore-edge, faint foxing marks on boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, minor rubbing. Very Good/Very Good

ART ARTISTS BIOGRAPHY SAMUEL PALMER EDWARD BURNEJONES ROSSETTI PRERAPHAELITES