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Watteau's Painted Conversations Art, Literature, and Talk in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
by Vidal, Mary
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine d/j
- ISBN 10
- 0300054807
- ISBN 13
- 9780300054804
- Seller
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Wilson, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Yale University Press, 1992. Bookplate of former owner on front endpaper, 1/2" tall embossed initials on title page, lower corner tips rubbed. D/j has tiny tear on top front corner tip fold. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. 238 pages.. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine d/j. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Virtuous Volumes et al.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010459
- Title
- Watteau's Painted Conversations Art, Literature, and Talk in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
- Author
- Vidal, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine d/j
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0300054807
- ISBN 13
- 9780300054804
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Watteau, Antoine Criticism Interpretation Genre Painting, French France 17th-Century 18th-Century Pictorial Works Social Life Customs Vidal, Mary
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art, Architecture, and Photography;
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Virtuous Volumes et al.
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