HEAD, Sir Edmund

Handbook of Painting. The German, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish and French Schools. Partly Translated from the German of Kugler By a Lady.

London John Murray 1854, 2 vols. lii, (2), 377 + 32 p. cat.; xvi, (2) 373 , (2) p. 21 cm. Illus ed.24, 18 plates. Hardcover. Brown cloth. Vol. 1: hinges badly cracked at signature, cloth on top of spine torn, minor foxing, bottom corner of some plates stained. Vol. 2: rear hinge cracked, cloth on spine chipped, minor foxing, cracked at sig. This book was first printed in London, 1848. Head was Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick from 1848 to 1854, and then was appointed Governor-in-Chief of Canada in 1854. His period of office in Canada was difficult due to the problems between Upper and Lower Canada. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, and author of several other volumes. This title not in TPL.

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