World-Famous Paintings (100 Full Color, Tipped-In Plates)
by Kent, Rockwell (ed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Wise & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full cream cloth, brown lettering on spine and cover, green and white printed endpapers. Unpaginated (approx. 450 pp.). Profusely illustrated with 100 tipped-in, full-page, full-color plates, each preceded by a page with historical and biographical data, an analysis of the specific work by Rockwell Kent, and list of other major works by the artist on the reverse. Edited, with an Introduction by Rockwell Kent. The artists depicted include: Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albetinelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Bordone, Moroni, Jan van Eyck, Memling, Mabuse, Rubens, Van Dyck, Dürer, Holbein, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Ter Borch, De Hooch, Metsu, Vermeer, Maes, Hobbema, Velásquez, Murillo, Watteau, Nattier, Chardin, Boucher, Perroneau, Greuze, Fragonard, Le Brun, Millet, Corot, Meissonier, Muenier, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Renoir, Manet, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Raeburn, Morland, Lawrence, Turner, Constable, Cox, De Wint, Maclise, Watts, Brown, Landseer, Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones, Yeames, Orchardson, Pettie, Holiday, Moore, Somerscales, Parsons, Cotman, Whistler, Homer, Eakins, Ryder, Sargent, Bellows, and Wood.. Covers moderately foxed and soiled, text block unmarked, tight, square, and clean, all of the tipped-in plates are bright and clean. A large, heavy book (seven pounds) - additional shipping charges may apply.GOOD. . Color Plates. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Unpaginated pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14610
- Title
- World-Famous Paintings (100 Full Color, Tipped-In Plates)
- Author
- Kent, Rockwell (ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wise & Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Art;, Art History;, History;, Color Plates;, Plates;, Painting;, Fine Art;, Art;, Rockwell Kent;
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Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
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