The Italian Painters of the Renaissance. With 400 Illustrations. [Second Impression thus]. SIR JOHN HUBERT WORTHINGTON'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE

BERENSON Bernard

Verlag: Phaidon, [1953], 1953

Beschreibung

Roy. 8vo., Second Impression thus, with coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome plates; oatmeal hessian, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SIR JOHN HUBERT WORTHINGTON AND BEARS THE FAMILY BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Worthington (1886-1963) was Vice-President of the RIBA from 1943-5 and a member of the Royal Fine Arts Commission from 1945-50. His major work includes the war cemetery at El Alamein, the post-war rebuilding of the Inns of Court in London, and the repairs to bomb damage suffered by Manchester Cathedral. Nice copy of Phaidon's revised edition first published in 1952. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33331

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Titel: The Italian Painters of the Renaissance. ...

Verlag: Phaidon, [1953]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1953