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ADAMS, WILLIAM HOWARD (EDITED BY) The Eye of Thomas Jefferson
Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia. 1981, First edition thus. (ISBN: 0813909023) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth, gilt, xl, 411 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio. index; 28 cm. First published, Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1976. VG. Gift inscription/front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket nicked, with creased flaps & a sunned spine, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword by J. Carter Brown; Exhibition Organization; Acknowledgments; Lenders; A Jefferson Chronology; Introduction, by William Howard Adams; Land of Promise; The British Connection; Progress of the Human Mind; Our Revolution; Europe: The Vaunted Scene; The Salon, by Pierre Rosenberg; Jefferson and Architecture in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century, by J. M. Perouse de Montclos; The Jeffersonian Creation; The Competition for the President's House, by Anatole Senkevitch; The Pleasures of Nature; Provenance, Exhibitions and Literature; Selected Biographies; Selected Bibliography; Index. Very Good/Good.
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