John Martin

First UK edition, first printing (previously published in the USA).  172pp, with many large colour and black and white illustrations.  Laminated, illustrated card covers.  Folio.  Some gentle edge wear to slightly shelf worn card covers.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. John Martin was one of the most popular English artists of the early Victorian era, best known for his sweeping and tumultuous Biblical scenes.  His name became a byword for the grandiose melodrama and Gothic romanticism so popular in the first half of the 19th cetury.  Using recently discovered source materials, Johnstone has carefully analysed Martin's career as a painter and engraver.  Over 80 of his compositions are illustrated and annotated, making this an important study of the prolific artist.