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Charles Robert Leslie; Tom Taylor : Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds

John Murray, London, 1865

Contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked saving the original spine and boards, upper and lower boards with gilt-lined border, spine in five densely-gilt compartments of gilt-tooled bands, gilt lettering on two and four, board edges gilt-tooled, edges and endpapers marbled. , An excellent set. , 8vo, P. Volume 1. frontis, title, printer’s imprint, iii-xvii, blank (2), plate, 1-532; Volume 2. frontis, title, printer’s imprint, iii- vii, blank (1), 646. , With a total of 39 plates, including two frontis portraits of Joshua Reynolds (the first by Falconnet, the second a self-portrait). The plates are a mixture of steel and wood engravings. , Volume : Two volumes.

Sir Joshua Reynolds was an English portrait painter and aesthetic critic who dominated English artistic life in the middle to late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style. With the founding of the Royal Academy in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first president and knighted by King George III. He was also a close friend and associate of Samuel Johnson.

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