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On the Elgin Marbles
by Hazlitt, William Tom (foreword) Paulin
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1843916029
- ISBN 13
- 9781843916024
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 2008 (1816-1824)* Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mono photo-illustrated soft card covers with French flaps. White & yellow title on black ground to spine and face. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 71 pp. text. vii pp. blank pages, notes & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The Elgin Marbles, brought to England from Athens in 1806, are the subject of three of Hazlitt's most famous and enduring essays: 'On the Elgin Marbles: the Illisus', 'On the Elgin Marbles' and 'Prose style and the Elgin Marbles'. They are presented here alongside four other essays on the visual arts, which brilliantly connect the vitality of painting with that of sculpture and writing prose.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st thus. with absolutely minimal shelf wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2400
- Title
- On the Elgin Marbles
- Author
- Hazlitt, William Tom (foreword) Paulin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus ?
- ISBN 10
- 1843916029
- ISBN 13
- 9781843916024
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 78
- Date Published
- 2008-08-13
- Size
- 12.7 x 1 x 20.3 cm
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