Divers Works of Early Masters in Christian Decoration:; With An Introduction Containing The Biography, Journal Of Travel Contemporaneous Association in Art, And A critical Account Of The Works of Albert Durer: etc.. by Weale, John (Editor) - 1846

London: John Weale, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Bound in two fine modern brown cloth chemises contents loose as issued laid-in and enclosed in matching fine brown cloth slipcase with red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Fine. Vol. I: (ii) 52 pages. Folio. 53 x 37 cm. 50 engraved or lithographed plates (two frontispieces and two additional lithographed pictorial titles) and 46 mostly hand-coloured (12 double-page or folding), engraved illustrations in text. Three line engraved plates by J. LeKeux. RAURI McLEAN, Victorian Book Design, p. 84 notes: "Divers Works in not entirely a chromolithograph book, but it is an interesting and ambitious production with some fine pages. In Volume I, the letterpress text is illustrated with copperplate engravings and etchings printed among the type, always a noble form of extravagance, as well as with wood engravings, the twelve chromolithographs (including some magnificent very large folding ones) were printed at 9 Argyll Place under the superintendence of Owen Jones." Also contains examples by Albrecht Durer and numerous examples of painted and stained glass. Moderate marginal foxing to text. Toning to some plate margins not affecting images.