Armand Dayot - L’Image de la Femme - Édition originale illustrée, reliure de luxe - - 1899-1899

Superb illustrated work devoted to the representation of women in the history of art, from Antiquity to the end of the 19th century.

Armand Dayot, inspector of Fine Arts, offers a historical and artistic study of the evolution of the female portrait through the centuries, the major artistic movements, and the works of the most famous painters and sculptors.

The work is richly illustrated with reproductions of paintings, drawings, engravings and medallions, notably presenting works by Old Masters and artists of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Bibliographic characteristics:

* Author: Armand Dayot
* Title: The Image of Woman
* Publisher: Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris
* Year: 1899
* Original edition
* 397 pages of text numbered, with preliminaries and plates hors texte
* Many in-text illustrations and plates hors texte
* Complete copy

Binding:

Very beautiful red leather binding, richly decorated with gold motifs on the boards and spine with raised bands. Decorative borders, gilded emblems, title stamped in gold and the edges wholly gilt.

A particularly elegant presentation, characteristic of fine illustrated works of the late 19th century.

Condition:

Good overall condition. Binding well preserved, showing some light rubbing and signs of use. Gilding still bright.

Interior well preserved, with some foxing and aging traces on certain pages, without impairing reading or appreciation of the illustrations.

Complete copy, in accordance with the photographs.

A fine bibliophilic work, bringing together art history, feminine portraits and a quality binding, particularly interesting for collectors of illustrated books from the 19th century.