Gnedich P. art History in 3 volumes.

Gnedich P. art History in 3 volumes.
St. Petersburg, Russia. Printing house of A. F. Marx, 1897. - LVI, 579, [3] p.; 680, [6] p.; IV, 720, [4] p.Hardcover with gold lettering on the spine and "corners", gold trim on the top of the block, decorated trim on the right and bottom edges; enlarged format (21 x 28.5 cm).

Volume I - worn and soiled cover; spine has considerable loss at the top and bottom; in unit time and household stains, traces of moisture; the deed and owner's signature on flyleaf, owner's signature on title, bookplate stamp "Doctor Nicholas Belyanin" on page 1; tear p. 91-94 side of the spine; loss of cripples the chromolithograph "the Architecture of Ancient Egypt", "Architecture of Greece", "Private dwellings in the Middle ages" and "the Judgment seat in the Middle ages"; tracings from "Antique painting" and "Solemn rites in the Middle ages" is separated from the block; the chromolithography "Architecture of the Middle ages" has fallen out and is nested; a sheet with a table of contents has fallen out; individual splits of the block are planned.

Volume II-the binding is worn and dirty; the spine has significant losses at the top and bottom; in the block, temporary and household stains, traces of moisture; damage to the tracing paper on the first chromolithography "Renaissance Architecture"; loss of cripples on the chromolithographs" Triumph of death", " Rubens. Elena", " Rembrandt. Sons of Jacob", "Murillo"; on chromolithographs "General view of the Sistine Chapel", " Raphael. The Sistine Madonna, " "The Rembrandt. Danae", "Holbein Jr." dented; chromolithography " Rubens. Venus and Adonis "fell out with the loss of tracing paper and embedded; chromolithography "Holbein Jr." torn on the spine by a third; postmark ex-libris "Doctor Nikolai Pavlovich Belyanin" on page 599;

Volume III - worn and soiled cover; spine has considerable loss at the top and bottom; the tear of the free sheet of the front endpaper at the spine; the block is temporary and household stains; stamp bookplate "Doctor Nicholas Belyanin, " p. 1, 151; loss of all cripples on chromolithograph with the exception of "luxury Items of the XVII century", "Architecture of the XVIII century, the Clothes and weapons of the Middle ages" and "the Judgment seat in the Middle ages"; chromolithograph "the Porcelain of the XVIII century" and had invested; planned unit splits unit; slightly sloping block under its own weight. 

Fundamental, richly illustrated work of P. Gnedich.

[Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich (18 [30] October 1855, Saint Petersburg — 16 July 1925, Leningrad) was a Russian writer, playwright and translator, art historian, and theatrical figure; grandnephew of N. I. Gnedich. One of the founders of art history.]