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London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1857; 1856; 1860. 5 volumes. Early Editions of Volumes I and II, First Editions of Volumes III, IV and V, all uniform in size and binding. With 3 frontispiece plates, 84 fine steel-engraved plates and 8 wood-engraved plates, in colours and black and white Royal 8vo, exquisitely bound by Riviere and Son in full contemporary tree calf richly gilt in compartments of the spines incorporating elaborate floral and illustrative tooling, lettered in gilt in two compartments, dated at the foot, double-ruled, gilt borders to the covers surrounding a richly tooled inner border of flowering vines, richly gilt inner dentelles, top edges gilt, marbled endleaves. Vol. I, Containing Parts I and II. 'Of General Principles and of Truth', lxiii, 423; Vol. II containing Part III, Sections I and II, 'Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties', xvi, 224; Vol. III containing Part IV, 'Of Many Things', xix, 348, with plates as called for; Vol. IV containing Part V, 'Of…

This five-volume work argued that art should focus on depicting nature with truth and sincerity.