sir william orpen frank rutter (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. REV BY BERNADETTE MURPHY. ILLUSTRATED. NO DJ , SOME MARKS ON BOARDS, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, KNOCKS ON CORNERS, CLOTH TEAR TOP OF SPINE, TANNED ON SIDES AND EPS, PAGE TOPS FROM PAGE 735-738 TORN AND CREASED , CORNER OF LEAF 739-40 IS CREASED, OTHERWISE GOOD. 1600 GRAMS.

24.0 x 17.5cms 854pp b/w illusts very good hardback (no dustwrapper) Following H G Wells Orpen wrote this famous overview to offer ''an all-embracing history of the race instead of the ill-balanced national histories which were then available''. This edition begins with ''the arts of prehistoric man'' and ''the arts of death'' (ie Egypt & Mesopotamia) and ends with ''art in the Commonwealth''.

Blue Buckram. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Revised and Extended Edition. Stories of the world's great painters with an added chapter on Contemporary Art. 740pp with index, illustrated with over 300 black and white photographs plus colour plate to frontis. Title page decorated with colour border. Gilt lettering to top board and spine. Slight bumping to spine and corners, fading to base of backstrip and edges sunned, otherwise good copy. Unclipped DJ darkened and edgeworn, otherwise fair. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage may be required for Air Mail shipping. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.