Author: Robert Flynn Johnson; Joseph R. Goldyne
Title: Master Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Description: Geneva , The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Richard Burton, S. A. [1985]. First edition. Cloth. An impressive illustrated catalogue of the master drawings from the Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, limited edition enclosed in its original slipcase. No. 855 of an unspecified number of copies. First edition, also published in softcover. This is an impressive large paper copy in full cloth binding with coloured illustration to front board. Containing a catalogue of the exhibition Master Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the California Palace of the Legion of Honour. Text by Robert Flynn Johnstone and Joseph R. Goldyne. With an introduction and careful catalogue of various schools: Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Danish, Spanish, French, English, and American. With notes and index of the artists.  Illustrated with ninety-five tipped in coloured plates representative of the artists. Printer's binding error, bound without pp. 81-88, therefore lacking five plates and descriptions with plate facing p. 80 not illustrative of the piece 'Study of a Tree' by Adolph von Menzel described to no. 32. Homed in lovely cloth slipcase also illustrated to front board.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding with illustration to front board. Externally lovely. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine .

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