Thomas Hope and the Neo-Classical Idea
by Watkin, David
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0719518199
- ISBN 13
- 9780719518195
- Seller
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Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1968. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dark green buckram with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper, dated Christmas 1981 and a blank bookplate on front pastedown. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and a couple of very small tears to spine and top of rear cover of jacket. Price-clipped. 316pp. 101 b/w plates. Thomas Hope (1769-1831), eccentric offspring of a Dutch banking family, employed his wealth and taste to impress on Regency society the principles of Neo-Classicism. While he invested in Old Masters, antique statuary and vases, he also patronised such contemporary painters as Flaxman, Thorvaldsen, Haydon and Benjamin West..
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- Bookseller
- Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007055
- Title
- Thomas Hope and the Neo-Classical Idea
- Author
- Watkin, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0719518199
- ISBN 13
- 9780719518195
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- thomas hope, neo-classicism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture, Design and Planning;
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Sturminster Newton
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- Gilt
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...