Gruner (Lewis, editor) The Terra-Cotta Architecture of North Italy (XIIth - XVth Centuries), one mounted photograph and 47 lithographed plates after Federigo Lose including 32 mounted chromolithographs, some others tinted, some offset onto text, photograph lightly faded, a little spotting, mostly marginal, bookseller's ticket of James Maclehose of Glasgow, original green roan-backed pictorial cloth, gilt, t.e.g., a little rubbed, 4to, 1867.

⁂ Interesting work on the Renaissance architecture of Lombard which uses the contemporary art of chromolithography to full effect. Gruner, a German scene painter and engraver, came to Britain after a period in Italy where he was enthralled by fresco painting and the polychromatic art of the Renaissance. He became art advisor to Prince Albert and along with Owen Jones and others was influential on mid-Victorian taste, as in the use of Lombardic Renaissance style in the great courtyard at the South Kensington Museum, now the V & A.