The Artist and Amateur's Magazine. A Work devoted to the Interests of the Arts of Design and the Cultivation of Taste

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. Large octavo, 364 pages. Early half calf and marbled papered boards a little scuffed, with minor wear to the corners; mild signs of age and use (including light tidemarks to the leading margin of some leaves); a very good copy. This would appear to be all twelve unnumbered and undated issues of the cumulative edition of Volume 1 of the magazine. The editor's 'Farewell Address' (see pages 359-363) indicates there will be no more: 'as regards the success of my project, it is a failure'. Edward Villiers Rippingille (c.1790-1859) 'was an English oil painter and watercolourist who was a member of the informal group of artists which has come to be known as the Bristol School. In that group he was a particularly close associate of both Edward Bird and Francis Danby' (Tate website).