orpen sir william frank rutter (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. REV BY BERNADETTE MURPHY. ILLUSTRATED. NO DJ , SOME MARKS ON BOARDS, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, KNOCKS ON CORNERS, CLOTH TEAR TOP OF SPINE, TANNED ON SIDES AND EPS, PAGE TOPS FROM PAGE 735-738 TORN AND CREASED , CORNER OF LEAF 739-40 IS CREASED, OTHERWISE GOOD. 1600 GRAMS.

24.0 x 17.5cms 854pp b/w illusts very good hardback (no dustwrapper) Following H G Wells Orpen wrote this famous overview to offer 'an all-embracing history of the race instead of the ill-balanced national histories which were then available'. This edition begins with 'the arts of prehistoric man' and 'the arts of death' (ie Egypt & Mesopotamia) and ends with 'art in the Commonwealth'.