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Seller's Description:
Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Decorative green boards with gilt designs; leather labeling on the spine. Boards with moderate wear and fading; edges torn; hinges cracking; pages dusty with light foxing. Uncommon title by an important early American art critic. James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888) was an American newspaper editor, and art critic who is remembered above all as the first American art collector to buy Italian primitives and Old Masters. Jarves was the editor of an early weekly newspaper in the Hawaiian Islands, the Polynesian (1840-1848). During the 1850s, Jarves relocated to Florence, Italy where he served as the U.S. vice-consul and collected art. When in 1871, the Yale University Art Gallery purchased 119 early Italian paintings from Jarves, spanning the centuries from the tenth to the seventeenth, which had been refused by other American museums, they paid only $30, 000. Edith Wharton drew upon Jarves' well-known misfortunes in her novella False Dawn (The Forties).
