Author: Kenneth Clark
Title: Landscape Into Art
Description: London, John Murray, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Kenneth Clark's celebrated work of art history, charting the development of the landscape in art. Inscribed to Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Graham Sutherland.With an author's presentation inscription to the half title head reading 'Bought by Ava! written by Kenneth Clark&apos. Presented to Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley, an English political and social hostess at the centre of government during the Second World War.It has been said that she had "more indirect influence than any woman of her generation" on English politics at the time.Illustrated with one-hundred and four monochrome illustrations on plates. Collated, complete.This is a classic work on the history and development of landscape in art, adapted from Kenneth Clark's Slade Lectures.Clark was a British art historian, museum director and broadcaster whose expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods. Clark is particularly associated with Italian Renaissance art and Leonardo da Vinci.With the bookplate of the North Devon Athenaeum Barnstaple to the front pastedown, which is stamped 'Presented by Lady Waverley', and with library number to front free endpaper head. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front pastedown, with library number to head of front free endpaper. Chipping and loss to dust wrapper back strip head, with sunning to back strip, and the odd closed tear and chip to wrap heads. Significant loss to tail of rear wrap. Library mark to back strip tail. Internally, firmly bound. Signed to half title head. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed/Good.

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