Author: Maurice Harold Grant
Title: A Chronological History of the Old English Landscape Painters in Oil from the Xvith Century to the Xixth Century
Description: London; Leigh-on-Sea, Published by the Author; F Lewis, 1926-1947. First edition. Cloth. A first edition three volume set of this fascinating work on English art. The first two volumes were published by the author, undated, in 1926 and the third published by F Lewis for the author in 1947. The third volume contains the errata for the first two volumes. The entire work was later revised and enlarged in the 1970s. With 275 full page plates and numerous illustrations in the text. A clean and attractive set of this important art reference. Scarce in the three volumes. Colonel Maurice Harold Grant was an soldier, art collector and author. He was renowned as a scholar who owned extensive collections of British landscapes, and wrote widely on the subject. In green cloth bindings. Externally, very smart with just some wear to extremities and handling marks to boards. Heavier wear to volume one. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with some occasional spotting. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .

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