The Portfolio, Artistic Monographs: 1898; Peter Paul Rubens; Greek Bronzes; The Later Work of Titian; Foreign Armour in England [4 titles in one volume]
by R. A. M. Stevenson; A. S. Murray; Claude Phillips; J. Starkie Gardner
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good minus
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London, England: Seely and Co, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus. 4 titles in 1 vol. Quarto, 10 3/4" tall, 100 pages + 10 plates; 104 pages + 4 plates; 112 pages + 6 plates; 96 pages + 8 plates (412 pages + 28 plates total); gilt tiles, gilt decorations and top edge, decorative maroon cloth. A very good, clean volume overall, with minor shelf wear, cloth just starting to fray at top and bottom edges of spine and fore-corner tips; some fading to cloth color along the back strip; gilt title and decoration on front panel bright; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with light foxing to fore-edges (top edge gilt quite bright) as well as to the margins of the plate pages. Note: overseas shipping is prohibitively expensive at present.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21234
- Title
- The Portfolio, Artistic Monographs: 1898; Peter Paul Rubens; Greek Bronzes; The Later Work of Titian; Foreign Armour in England [4 titles in one volume]
- Author
- R. A. M. Stevenson; A. S. Murray; Claude Phillips; J. Starkie Gardner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Seely and Co
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Armour; Sculpture; Titian; Rubens; Art History; Biography; Painting; Bronzes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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