Angela Thirlwell – The Pre-Raphaelites and their World – First Folio Edition 1995
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- Description
Description
A first Folio Society edition, first printing of The Pre-Raphaelites and their World – A Personal View, published by The Folio Society, London in 1995, introduction and epilogue by Angela Thirlwell, illustrated throughout. A very fine book free from internal inscriptions, cloth bound boards with polychrome and gilt title and design to front board, gilt titling to the spine, the text blocks are bright and crisp. In crimson paper bound slip case, some bumping to lower corner.
The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of 19th century British artists and poets who sought to revive the detail, colour and realism of art before Raphael. Formed in 1848, they reacted against the industrial age and academic art, embracing medieval themes of nature and romanticism. Key figures included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. Their world blended beauty, symbolism and literature, influencing Victorian art, design and ideals of truth and emotional expression in creative work.
