Recollections of Rubens by Burckhardt, Jacob - 1950

Phaidon Press Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good/Good. No Edition Remarks. 374 pages. Illustrated dustjacket over blue cloth. Includes black & white plates. Includes colour plates. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Some pages are dog-earred. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Spine is heavily tanned. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Spine is heavily tanned. Heavy tear to rear edge of spine.

The Phaidon Press Ltd., 1950. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 374 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks and foxing overall.

Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Phaidon, 1950. Small 8vo, pp. 374. Includes notes and selected letters. Illustrated with 120 monochrome plates near the end, with 22 in the text, three of which are in color. VG.

Phaidon P, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Previous owner's personal bookplate. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

London/New York: Phaidon Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Jacket is toned and worn to edges; moderate toning to edges of text. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound copy. Profusely illustrated; indexes & bibliographical note. xii,375pp..

Phaidon, London, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Rubens. XII, 252, 120, 16 pages, includes indexes and bibliographical notes, 120 black-and-white reproductions of artworks, in a rear section, and XXIII illustrations, within the text area, 4 of which are reproduced in colour. There is a gift inscription on the front free end page "with many thanks for constant help, from the editor 1/7/50". Illustrated dustjacket is quite rubbed on all of the vertical folds and across both top and bottom edges. Now protected. This is the last work of the famous author of the "Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy." A selection from the correspondence of Rubens, for the 1st time translated into English, is appended to this edition. The volume is edited by H Gerson, who has also chosen the illustrations. -- Front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator:… Read More

New York: Phaidon/The Oxford University Press. Hardcover. First Edition. Recollections of Rubens. Foxing to edge. Browning to edge of cloth and spine. Contents: Editor's Introduction. Synopsis by Burckhardt. Recollections of Rubens. Notes. Selected Letters of Rubens. Plates. Index of Collections. Index of Rubens's Work. The Translation of Burckhardt's Essay is by Mary Hottinger. The translation of the Selected Letters is by R. H. Boothroyd and I. Grape. Illustrated. 375 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1901.

London: Phaidon. Colour frontispiece, 249 text pages, 140 plates after the text, including 4 in colour. Edited by H. Gerson, with an introduction, notes, selected letters, index of collections, index of works. Phaidon Press, London. 1950. Blue decorated cloth in dustjacket which is faded on spine and 1/2 inch piece missing on front. . Good. Cloth. 1950.