London, Charles Griffin & Co., Strand [1882].
Hardcover. Navy blue cloth , beveled boards with red embossed rulings and gilt lettering on front, all edges gilt. Folio (16 inches), 14 pages of text, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates.

Scarce copy. The engravings are reproduced with outstanding quality.

Contents:
Portrait of Raphael
Life of Raphael
The miraculous draught of fishes
Christ's charge to Peter
St. Peter healing the lame man
The death of Ananias
Elymas struck with blindness
The sacrifice at Lystra
Paul preaching at Athens

The Raphael Cartoons are a set of seven full-scale designs for tapestry painted by Raphael (1483 – 1520), and are considered one of the greatest treasures of the Renaissance. They were commissioned in 1515 by Pope Leo X for the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and depict the lives of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The Cartoons have been on loan at the South Kensington Museum (i.e. TheVictoria and Albert Museum) since they were deposited by Queen Victoria in 1865 as a tribute to Prince Albert, Prince Consort to the Queen (1819 – 61), and his pioneering enterprise, known as the Raphael Collection.

George Greatbach (1819 – 1884), sometimes spelled Greatbatch, was an English engraver and illustrator, same as his brother William (1802 - 1894), with whom he sometimes published as 'Messrs Greatbach.'

CONDITION: Very Good-. (Boards have light to moderate wear at edges and spine ends, some rubbings and soil, especially on rear board.
The Contents are tightly bound, complete and intact. The Title Page is darkened. The leaf with the portralt of Raphael has a light damp stain at the upper fore corner, and the other plates have a very faint and small stain at the upper fore corner. Some of the plates also have a tiny spot in the blank margin.)