Victorian Painters In exceptionally good condition kk

New York: Abbeville Press, 1984. First Abbeville Press Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed ecru cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 257, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Jeremy Stephen Maas (1928 – 1997) was an English art dealer and art historian, best known for his expertise in Victorian painting. After employment in advertising and printing, he followed his interest in Victorian painting - sparked by reading William Gaunt's Aesthetic Adventure at university - and moved to work at Bonhams auction house, where he established the watercolour and drawings department. Maas opened his own retail gallery, the Maas Gallery, in December 1960. The gallery was based in Clifford Street in Mayfair, near Bond Street, London. The gallery specialized in Victorian art - paintings, watercolours, and drawings - which at the time was unfashionable and often difficult to sell. He revived interest in the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and held the first of a series of commercial exhibitions in December 1961. He published several books, including a work on Victorian Painters in 1969; a biography of the art dealer Gambart, Prince of the Victorian Art World in 1975; and two books on individual paintings by William Powell Frith and William Holman Hunt: The Prince of Wales' Wedding in 1977, and Holman Hunt and the Light of the World in 1984. His collection of photographs and cartes-de-visites of artists inspired another book The Victorian Art World in Photographs published in 1984.