Elements of Art, a Poem in Six Cantos. With a preface, including strictures on the State of the Arts, Criticism, Patronage, and Public Taste

by Martin Archer Shee

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First edition

London: William Miller, 1809. First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 4 , 400 pp. American painter Washington Allston's copy, with his ownership signature at the head of the half title and with a small pen-and-ink sketch 2 1/2 x 2 inches of a man’s head, perhaps of classical character, at the bottom of the half-title facial features inked through . Allston 1773-1843 , a native of South Carolina, graduated from Harvard in 1800 where he exhibited a flair for

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