[Roger Fry]
An illustrated collection of Roger Fry's essays on art created over twenty years, some previously unpublished and some re-edited for this publication. The volume includes essays such as 'Art and Life', 'An Essay on Aesthetics', 'Art and Socialism', 'Three Pictures in Tempera by William Blake', 'Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings', and 'The French Post-Impressionists'. Essays on 'The Art of the Bushmen', 'Negro Sculpture', 'Ancient American Art' and 'The Munich Exhibition of Mohammedan Art' reveal Fry's interest in non-Western art and the wider, gradually developing attitudes of the European art world at the beginning of the twentieth century. Scarce with the dust jacket. From the library of the historian, educationalist and art collector Michael Sadler.
Roger Fry. Chatto & Windus. London. 1920. First edition. Hardback, quarto; white-cloth backed grary boards, dust jacket, top edge gilt, pages uncut. viii, 204 pages. Frontispiece (with tissue-guard) and 31 hors-texte b&w plates. English. 295 x 230mm. 1.5kg. . Very good, in fair dust jacket; light wear to boards and some rubbing to forecorners and spine ends, offsetting to endpapers; fragile dust jacket with loss to edges, some soiling to white surface, horizontal crease and other smaller creases; from the library of Michael Ernest Sadler, University College, Oxford, with his bookplate to front pastedown and pencil signature to front free endpaper, additional 'A' book label to front pastedown.
