Farm Animal Portraits
by Moncrieff, Elspeth; Joseph, Stephen; Joseph, Iona
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1851492399
- ISBN 13
- 9781851492398
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Suffolk, UK: Antique Collectors' Club, 1997. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Suffolk, UK: Antique Collectors' Club, 1997. 4to., 9 1/2" x 11", 304pp., over 400 illustrations (325 in full color). Blue cloth with gilt titles, color pictorial endpapers. "In the late eighteenth century livestock breeding swept the country with the urgency of any newly created fashion. The livestock portraits of the day form the only record of many of these early breeds which are now endangered, extinct or changed beyond recognition. This is the first comprehensive study of an exceptional period in livestock experimentation and of the social and economic aspirations which led to the commissioning of these paintings." Fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010240
- Title
- Farm Animal Portraits
- Author
- Moncrieff, Elspeth; Joseph, Stephen; Joseph, Iona
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1851492399
- ISBN 13
- 9781851492398
- Publisher
- Antique Collectors' Club
- Place of Publication
- Suffolk, UK
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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