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A Foul and Pestilent Congregation: Images of 'Freaks' in Baroque Art
by Barry Wind
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 1859284264
- ISBN 13
- 9781859284261
- Seller
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Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Aldershot, England/Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 1997. cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., at front and rear interior hinges the binder's adhesive darkened under the pastedown along the gutter. dj spine has sunned. the art historian prior owner wrote his name, place/date on front free endpaper. else, clean. no text or exterior markings. no bumps, tears, clips, or the like. tight binding.; english text.; xii-150pp., 73 b/w illustrations. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- art longwood books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22983
- Title
- A Foul and Pestilent Congregation: Images of 'Freaks' in Baroque Art
- Author
- Barry Wind
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1859284264
- ISBN 13
- 9781859284261
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Aldershot, England/Brookfield, VT
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Spanish Seventeenth Painting.; Jusepe De Ribera.; Depictions of Deformity in 17th Century Art.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art History, Europe; The Odd and Off Beat;
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