THE ART JOURNAL FOR 1876. NEW SERIES. VOL. 2. (Spine title: "Appleton's Art Journal Vol. II.") [Volume II-Two.]

Annual art periodical issued as VOLUME II for 1876. vi, 380 pages. Hardcover: H 32.75cm x L 25.75cm. Original half-leather binding: leather spine with four raised bands, cloth boards with leather corners. Surface scuffing to spine with with gilt stamped lettering in two compartments still bright; obtrusively strong mottling to front board causing flaking loss to gilt lettering; milder mottling to rear board; slender cloth loss along board edges with some shallow overlapping cloth loss into inner board margins; mild wear at both boards' top leather corners. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers; toning to ffep verso, front fly, rear fly, and rfep recto; tear to front fly along with old ink signature "Lucy. Banks." at top; some toning and foxing with a few occasional small stains to interior leaves. Binding is firm. Else a good+ copy. Features numerous b/w plates with tissue guard sheets throughout. Appleton's Art Journal-New Series began with Volume I which was issued in 1875 with Volume 6 issued in 1880; publisher Patterson & Neilson issued unnumbered annual volumes from 1881 to 1886. One of ten children of George Hampton Young who owned the architecturally renowned Waverly Plantation on the west bank of the Tombigbee River between Columbus and West Point, Mississippi, Lucy Watkins Young (1841-1933) married widower, Confederate Army veteran, and Columbus physician Lt. Col. James Oliver Banks (1829-1904) in May 1870. Their marriage produced five children all of whom survived to adulthood and the Banks-Young progeny enjoyed Mississippi and Alabama real estate and land holdings in the cities of Columbus and Eutaw as well as in Lowndes County, Clay County, Tuscaloosa County, and Greene County. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 9 pounds (4.08 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…