LETTERS OF THE GREAT ARTISTS: Two (2) Volume Set--Vol. 1: From Ghiberti to Gainsborough; Vol. 2: From Blake to Pollock
by Friedenthal, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House (1963) Original red cloth covers w/ gilt titles on spines. Spines a bit sunned w/ modest rubbing to ends. Set comes in original, pictorial slipcase, which has some bubbling to plastic, but still very nice. Volume 1 illustrated w/ 150 plates, 51 in colour; Volume 2 illustrated w/ 152 plates, 59 in colour. Contents very nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24375ART
- Title
- LETTERS OF THE GREAT ARTISTS: Two (2) Volume Set--Vol. 1: From Ghiberti to Gainsborough; Vol. 2: From Blake to Pollock
- Author
- Friedenthal, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Keywords
- ART HISTORY ARTISTS BIOGRAPHY LETTERS CORRESPONDENCE REMINISCENCES ETC. EARLY RENAISSANCE HIGH RENAISSANCE LATE RENAISSANCE MANNERISM SEVENTEENTH 17TH CENTURY EIGHTEENTH 18TH CENTURY EARLY NINETEENTH 19TH CENTURY MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY IMPRESSIONISM TWENT
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- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Sunned
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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