UP FOR AUCTION: 

RARE BOOK: 

The Art Idea : 

Sculpture, Painting and Architecture in America

by James Jackson Jarves,

Published by Hurd and Houghton, New York, USA, 1870,

Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company, Cambridge, MA, USA,

3rd Edition, 1870,

Hardcover Book, 381 pages, 

This is an antique, 1870, book by James Jackson Jarves (1818 -- 1888).  He was an American newspaper editor, and art critic who is remembered by most as the first American art collector to buy Italian primitives and Old Masters.  In 1871, the Yale University Art Gallery purchased 119 Italian paintings from Jarves.

In "The Art-Idea", Jarves discusses the meanings of beauty in the sculpture, painting, and architecture of America.

The book is very legible and solid: an interesting, antique, 1870 book.  The publisher was a well-known New York book publisher of the 1870's. 

See ebay pics above for actual book. 

Good Plus Condition 

[ Book's cover-edges are somewhat scraped (having tiny tears; see pics), front page has name of former owner ("Halleck", see pic); otherwise, book is clean, well-bound, solid, complete, tight with strong hinges, easily readable, and sharply printed ] 

381 pages, approx. 6.5" x 4.25" x 1.25",  red cloth covers with paper label on spine,

Hardcover Book 

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