Primavera: The Restoration of Botticelli's Masterpiece
by Baldini, Umberto
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0810923149
- ISBN 13
- 9780810923140
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1986* Publisher: Harry N. Abrams.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. Now in clear slip-on library jacket. 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: 120 illustrations 90 in full colour.* Pages: 112 pp. text. viii pp. bibliography, index, photo credits and blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- This exciting story of how one of the world?s greatest paintings was lovingly restored to its original freshness and beauty. Due to the instability of pigments in the original painting changes in colour and density started to appear including cupping of the paint which gave a sure warning of flaking and detachment. Using ultraviolet light and x-ray examination we are taken through the process of cleaning, restoring and interpretation of this famous work of art.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with absolutely minimal shelf wear, now in clear library cover.*
Synopsis
Jonathan Raban is the author of Soft City, Arabia, Old Glory, Foreign Land, For Love and Money, Coasting , and Hunting Mr. Heartbreak . He won the W.H. Heinemann Award for Literature in 1982 and the Thomas Cook Award in 1981 and 1991. He has also edited the Oxford Book of the Sea . He lives in Seattle.
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2636
- Title
- Primavera: The Restoration of Botticelli's Masterpiece
- Author
- Baldini, Umberto
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0810923149
- ISBN 13
- 9780810923140
- Publisher
- Harry N Abrams Inc
- Place of Publication
- N Y USA 120
- Date Published
- 1986-04-01
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