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Gainsborough
by Ellis Waterhouse
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/Near Fine
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Spring Books, London, 1966. First Thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. titles, contents, chronology, main events in life of Gainsborough, notes, bibliography, & introduction to the plates followed by the illustrations (colour frontispiece, 7 colour plates, & 292 b/w. photo. plates) The catalogue is arranged according to: portraits of named sitters; groups of named sitters; unidentified sitters (ie the Suffolk period); unidentified portraits of 1760 and after; pictures of animals; landscapes of the earlier Suffolk period; late Suffolk & Bath period landscapes (1758-1774); landscapes of the London period (1774-1788); copies after old masters. A listing of no fewer than 1032 paintings attributable to Gainsborough. New Edition. 296 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, except for marks from adhesive tape on flaps front and rear. Price clipped inside book. Gilt titles spine. green cloth. includes indexes to past & present owners of paintings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Artists; Suffolk; Reference; England; 18th century; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 4434. . This book is fairly heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4434
- Title
- Gainsborough
- Author
- Ellis Waterhouse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Spring Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Art/Artists/Biography/Suffolk /Sudbury/Thomas Gainsborough/Art Reference/Art Catalogues Art & Design; Artists; Suffolk; Reference; England; 18th century; Biography & Autobiography. Unbranded Ellis Waterhouse Gainsborough
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Flap(s)
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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