7 vols. 4º mayor, (33,5 x 25 cm): viii, 320; viii, 384; viii, 388; viii, 376; viii, 380; viii, 380; viii, 376 pp. En total 2.660 páginas, con multitud de ilustraciones en texto + 251 grabados al acero a plena página, de los que 125 corresponden a la Royal Gallery, 19 a la Turner Gallery y el resto a esculturas y obras selectas. Todos los grabados a plena página y muchos protegidos con hojas papel cebolla.

Encuadernación uniforme: media piel y puntas, cantos superiores en oro y lomos con nervios, título, año y dorados. Ex libris: Thomas Conolly: IN * DIEU* EST * TOUT.

“The Art-Journal was the most important Victorian journal devoted to art. These large quarto volumes offer a comprehensive contemporaneous overview of the mid-nineteenth-century art world, with emphasis on the British art scene. Includes articles and many, many illustrations, with impressively realized full-page engraved plates”.

“The London publisher George Virtue purchased the Art Union Monthly Journal in 1848 and renamed the periodical, The Art Journal, in 1849. The Art Journal ceased publicación in 1912”. An American edition of The Art Journal was published in New York from 1881 to 1887 by D. Appleton & Co.

Ref.: Katherine Haskins. "The Art-Journal and Fine Art Publishing in Victorian

England, 1850-1880". Farnham: Ashgate, 2012