Author: Bell, Quentin
Title: Victorian Artists
Description: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1967. First Edition, Hardcover, Illustrated by: Various. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. preface by author, a note on sources, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with the aforementioned black-and-white plates. Black coloured boards with metallic copper coloured titles to the backstrip. "This book has been made out of eight lectures delivered at Oxford during the spring of 1965. My indulgent and responsive audience probably did not expect and certainly did not receive the fruits of the profound research. What I attempted to do was offer some general consideration and concerning the Victorian period and partial adumberation of its historical shape." – from the preface page XIII. Rubbing to the backstrip edges and book corners. Light age toning of the textblock edges with the start of foxing to the top textblock edge. Foxing to the endpapers, with previous owner's ex libris plate to the free front end paper. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Upon opening the book there is a distinct musty smell. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [5], VI - XIV, 111, [67 – of which 64 are black and white photographic reproductions of artwork] pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1.

Keywords: BZDB2 Art, Victorian, Britain, lectures Art & Design; Britain/UK; 19th century; Victorian Artists


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