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(Children's & Illustrated) 5 Vols. 19th Century Art & Illustration: Wilkie, Sir David. The Wilkie Gallery. London: Virtue, [ca. 1840]. 4to, contemporary three-quarters morocco and cloth, gilt, all edges gilt; rubbed and worn, spine defective, front hinge broken. With engraved frontispiece portrait, additional engraved vignette title + 65 steel-engraved plates, tissue guards. Scattered light foxing. Ex-library: ink stamps on additional vignette title, label on front pastedown; otherwise internally generally clean. * Contemporary Art, Thirty Etchings and Chromolithographs after original pictures by the Eminent Artists of the Present Day. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1876. Folio, original richly gilt blue cloth, rough cut gilt edges; corners bumped, other light edge wear. With 30 plates (15 chromolithographic, 15 plain etchings), lettered guard sheets. Ex-library: ink stamp on title page and on blank bottom margin of plates; but otherwise internally generally clean. * Dumas, F(rancois) G(uillaume). Illustrated Biographies of Modern Artists. Paris: Library d'Art, Ludovic Baschet, 1882. #619/1,200. Large folio, contemporary three-quarters morocco and marbled boards, gilt, gilt-lettered spine, red speckled edges; joints and extremities heavily rubbed. With etched and photo gravure plates, lettered tissue guards, full-page and text illustrations. Ex-library: ink stamp on title page and on versos of plates, label on front pastedown; but otherwise internally generally clean. * Smith, F. Hopkinson. American Illustrators. New York: Scribner's, 1892. Folio, contemporary half-green morocco, gilt, spine gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; joints and extremities rubbed. With 15 plates (6 colored), lettered tissue guards, after Howard Pyle Winslow Homer Frederic Remington Charles Dana Gibson et al. Ex-library: ink stamp on title page and on versos of plates, label on front pastedown; but otherwise internally generally clean. * Cortissoz, Royal. Augustus Saint-Gaudens Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907. First edition. Large 8vo, original gilt and green stamped decorated black cloth, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; light wear. With 24 photogravure plates, loose tissue guards. Ex-library: ink stamp on bottom blank margins of plates, label on front pastedown, bar code on front free endpaper recto; but otherwise internally generally clean.