GNEDICH, P.P. (1855–1925) Istoriya iskusstv s drevneyshikh vremen [A History of Art from the Earliest Times]. St Petersburg: A.F. Marx, 1885. First edition, issued in a small print run.

[10], VIII, 506 pp.: ill.; 28.5 × 19.5 cm. Contemporary full cloth binding, with leather spine label gilt. Good condition. Minor wear and soiling to the binding, splitting to the cloth along the spine. A monograph by the Russian historian and art historian Petr Petrovich Gnedich (1855–1925), presenting a detailed account of the development of art from antiquity, forming the first stage of his later monumental three-volume work. First edition, issued in a small print run.