The Story of Art. With 398 Illustrations [ Fourteenth edition]. by Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans Josef), 1909-2001

London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. Hardcover. Fine. Navy slipcase and covers, gold lettering on spine. 72 pp illustrations. Part of Series Walter Neurath memorial lectures.

New Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press, 2008. 20th Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dulled and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xix, 284 pages: illustrations, maps. Subjects: Whitman College Memorial bookplates Class of 1972. World history; Juvenile literature. World history. Non-Fiction 9+. History. History - Children's literature. Genre: Juvenile works.

Oxford : Phaidon, 1976. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Panel edges slightly sun-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: Studies in the art of the Renaissance; 3. Physical description: viii, 250 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 245) and index. Contents: Lights and highlights. The heritage of Apelles ; Light, form and texture in fifteenth-century painting north and south of the alps -- Leonardo da Vinci's method of analysis and permutation ; The form of movement in water and air ; The grotesque heads -- Jerome Bosch's 'Garden of earthly delights' ; The earliest description of the triptych ; 'As was due in the days of Noe' -- Classical rules and rational standards ; From the revival of letters to the reform of the arts: Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi… Read More

London : Thames and Hudson, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 191 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), portraits ; 25cm. Subjects: Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans) (1909-2001) -- Interviews. Art historians -- Austria -- Interviews.

Oxford : Phaidon, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance ; 4. Physical description: 191 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 26cm. Subjects: Renaissance -- Art -- Italy.

London : Duckworth, 1980. 3rd edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 288 pages, illustrations (some color), 24 cm. Notes: Illus. (some col.) incl. sections, plans, diagr. and graphs. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Foreword / R.L. Gregory and E.H. Gombrich -- The baffled brain / Colin Blakemore -- The confounded eye / R.L. Gregory -- Natural deception / H.E. Hinton -- Illusion and culture / Jan B. Deregowski -- Illusion and art / E.H. Gombrich -- In praise of illusion / Roland Penrose. Subjects: Optical illusions; Visual perception; Art Psychology; Illusion (Philosophy); Mimicry (Biology); Composition Art; Art - Theory.

London : Phaidon Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 2. Physical description; viii, 235 p., plates : ill., facsims., 1 map ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 236. Contents; Aims and limits of iconology -- Tobias and the angel -- Botticelli's mythologies: a study in the neo-Platonic symbolism of his circle -- An interpretation of Mantegna's 'Parnassus.'--Raphael's Stanza della segnatura and the nature of its symbolism -- Hypnerotomachiana -- The Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo del Te -- The subject of Poussin's Orion -- Icones symbolicae: philosophies of symbolism and their bearing on art. Subjects; Symbolism in art. Art, Italian History. Art, Renaissance. Symbolism Art Italy Renaissance period. Christian art and symbolism. Iconology - Renaissance Art. Humanism - Renaissance Art.

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original cloth-backed illustrated boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 1 online resource (97 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). Notes: ""This book was first published to accompany an exhibition in the Sunley Room at the National Gallery, London, June 1995"". Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Foreword / by Neil MacGregor -- Introduction / by Nicholas Penny -- Aspects of cast shadows: The art historian's eye ; Cast shadows and the laws of optics ; The shadow in myth and legend ; Observations on cast shadows in the history of painting -- Artistic functions of cast shadows: Illustrated by paintings in the National Gallery. Subjects: Shades and shadows in art; Visual perception; Exhibition Catalogues; Paintings; Art Criticism.

Princeton, N.J. : published for Bollingen Foundation by Princeton University Press, 1972. Second Edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series; Bollingen series, 35. The A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 5. Physical description; xxxi, 466 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Art Psychology. Bollingen series. Fine arts lectures.

London [New Haven]: National Gallery Publications; Distributed by Yale University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 64 pages: ill. (some col.); 25 cm. Subjects: National Gallery (London) (Perm.)Shades and shadows in art; Exhibitions. Visual perception; Exhibitions.