VERY GOOD
CONDITION
This sale is for a
large size vintage hardback FIRST EDITION entitled “The World of Mary Ellen Best,” by Caroline Davidson, with a Foreword by Howard Rutkowski and illustrated
with nearly 140 COLOUR pictures, including a FULL-PAGE COLOUR frontispiece self-portrait
of Mary Ellen Best in 1839 and 3 maps.
It was published
by Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, of London, and is the 1985 (date of
copyright) FIRST EDITION.
Caroline Davidson tracked down hundreds of English artist, Mary
Ellen Best (1809–1891) paintings and uncovers the fascinating story of
her life.
Mary Ellen Best was most active as an artist in the 1830s, usually
working in water-colour, commonly painting scenes of domestic life. Unlike most of the artists of her time, she
was much more interested in painting the lives of women than of men.
Born in York, England, she was a discerning traveller, undertaking
three continental tours before she marrying Johan Anton and moving to Germany, where
she continued to paint the houses they lived in.
Her paintings of domestic life, including families at tables, kitchens,
and domestic workers. She painted a number of water-colour images of her home
in Castle Gate, York, including interior portraits of the drawing room, dining
room (painted in 1838), and one of herself working in her painting room (depicted
on the front of the dust-jacket). She also painted other houses including the
drawing room of Naburn Hall, which was then home to George Palmes.
The book measures 11
inches x 9 inches and has 160 pages (including illustrations).
The book is in
good, bright, clean and neat condition for its age, with fading to the spine of
the otherwise very good original dust-jacket (not even price-clipped). There
are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the
book. The binding is very good with no
loose or missing pages.
A wonderfully illustrated
vintage FIRST EDITION.
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