Frist edition, first impression. 264pp, plus numerous black and white plate illustrations. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Top edge gilt. 8vo. An ex lending library copy with bookplate on front paste down, usual library markings on front free endpaper, minor annotation opposite the title page, pocket on rear endpaper and call number taped over spine (no other library markings). Cloth is worn all over, heavily rubbed around spine, gently rounded on corners. Text block edges softened. Some toning on endpapers else internally, barring stated library markings, clean and neat. Firmly bound and square. Volume a little musty.
Adrian Durham Stokes (1902-1872) was an important and influential 20th century art critic who focussed on the early Renaissance sculpture and the aesthetics of stone carving, and the major catalyst in transforming the Cornish town of St Ives into an internationally acclaimed centre of modern art, bringing both painter Ben Nicholson and Wakefield-born sculptor Barbara Hepworth to the community there. Stones of Rimini was one of his major works, establishing his keen theme of the duality of carving-modelling. Now a hard to find in its original edition and sought after title.
