C reginald grundy intro (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red cloth, lettered in gilt. Stated 1st ed. xiv,50 pp. + 48 color plates, 2 monochrome. Mild shelf wear, cloth lightly soiled and with a few minor surface marks. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. Interior and text block edges show some foxing, generally fairly light, and most plates still clean and unaffected. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Condizione: very good. 1st edition. xvi,270pp. Quarto. Original blue cloth. Spine title in gilt; some sunning to spine and edges of boards, crown and foot show minor shelf wear. Corners slightly bumped; several small soil marks to rear board. Edges of text block lightly foxed with some small spots throughout. Illustrated title page; 57 B/W and full colour plates from reproductions with tissue guards. A tight copy; very clean for its age. very good Early retrospective of British painting; Grundy comments that earlier critics "failed to recognise that there was a British school of painting" (vi) and that recognition for John James Masquerier has been too small. Masquerier trained at the Royal Academy in the 1790s and went on to paint and associate with some of the most well known aristocracy of the day. His portraits includes Crabb Robinson, the Duke of Sussex and others.…