Cecil Harcourt Smith (74 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Chips and tears to jacket edges, jacket rubbed, jacket reverse taped. Top page ridge and pages foxed. 1950 Hard Cover. 224 pp. Picasso artwork on jacket. 24 photogravure plates and 40 line drawings. Various author write on a particular lively art that they have made their own.…

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Catalogue of the Art Collection: 8, Cadogan Square, S.W; v.1. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with minor defects. Some issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate tanning and thumb marking. Heavy foxing. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 24pp. + 16 b/w plates.

Condition: New.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Paperback. 31cm x 23.5cm. 151pp. Numerous b&w illustrations. Spine ends frayed, corners slightly creased/scuffed. Private ownership. (g5).

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 125pp, green soft covers. Many b + w illustrations. Previous owner's name label to flyleaf. The front and back covers are missing, but internally clean and tight. Illustrated descriptions of rthe acquisitions made by the various departments, including Burne Jones, Walter Crane, Millais, Burgkmair etc, porcelain from Korea and pottery from Syria and John Dwight of Fulham, tapestries, furniture and metal work, plus loans, including St Cuthbert's Gospel, plus visitor numbers etc.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 660 pages. 8.50x6.56x1.49 inches. In Stock.

Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Pp. [iv]+44; cr. 8vo; blue/grey printed paper wrappers, faded, with the blind stamp of the Victoria and Albert Museum on both panels, edges slightly rubbed and creased; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, hinges cracked at a couple of points, a little light foxing; privately printed, London, 1919. *'Under revision. For Official Use Only' [upper wrapper]. British archaeologist Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith (1859-1944) was Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum from 1904 to 1909, and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1909 until 1924. …

Hardcover. Condition: g- to vg. First edition. Folio. 4pp., (1) 12 plates. Original portfolio with blue quarter-cloth over light blue boards with dark blue lettering on cover. All plates illustrated with b/w photographs of casts of Persian wall reliefs. As Cecil Harcourt-Smith states in the exhibition pamphlet, "the casts here described are taken from molds procured by an expedition sent to Persepolis in 1891. .Whereas at Susa the remains are chiefly representative of one period, that of Artaxerxes Mnemon (404-359 B.C.), at Persepolis sculptures are still standing which show a fairly continuous development of Achaemenid art from the reign of Darius son of Hystaspes (522-486 B.C.) to that of Artaxerxes Ochus (359-338 B.C.). Plates include the Upper and Lower Part of Throne Relief from the Hall of the Hundred Columns, Frieze from the Hall of Xerxes, Central Panel of Frieze from the Stairway of Artaxerxes III Ochus, and reliefs of a Winged Genius from the Period of Cyrus the Great, a King Stabbing a Monster, a Bodyguard, and a King Stabbing a Lion. Pamphlet titled Temporary Exhibition of Casts from Persepolis and four plates from different publication laid in. Binding with wear along edges, chips at corners and top edge of front cover. Lightly sunned along edges of binding, rubbed. Previous owner's name inked to inside front cover. Title plate with crease in lower left corner, plates two and six with small creases in lower right corner. Pocket at inside back cover with light fraying at top and bottom edges. Few pencil marks in margins of plates. Lightly age-toned. Binding in overall good-, interior in good, images in very good condition.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Hardcover. First edition. Folio. Portfolio with 12 plates. All plates illustrated with b/w photographs of casts of Persian wall reliefs. As Cecil Harcourt-Smith states in the exhibition pamphlet, "the casts here described are taken from moulds procured by an expedition sent to Persepolis in 1891. .Whereas at Susa the remains are chiefly representative of one period, that of Artaxerxes Mnemon (404-359 B.C.), at Persepolis sculptures are still standing which show a fairly continuous development of Achaemenid art from the reign of Darius son of Hystaspes (522-486 B.C.) to that of Artaxerxes Ochus (359-338 B.C.). Plates include the Upper and Lower Part of Throne Relief from the Hall of the Hundred Columns, Frieze from the Hall of Xerxes, Central Panel of Frieze from the Stairway of Artaxerxes III Ochus, and reliefs of a Winged Genius from the Period of Cyrus the Great, a King Stabbing a Monster, a Bodyguard, and a King Stabbing a Lion. Pamphlet titled Temporary Exhibition of Casts from Persepolis laid-in. Age wear and staining on boards. Binding fair, interior overall very good. …

2pp., 4to. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. With the Society's oval date stamp. He is sending as promised 'a note of the arrangements agreed upon between us at our interview to-day'. Undertaking to provide space at the Museum 'for the purpose of receiving, arranging for judgment, and re-despatching the designs submitted for the Owen Jones prizes for industrial design. The judging will be done by your nominees, and all correspondence in connection with the matter will be in your hands'. The document continues with further details of the arrangements, concluding that 'in the unlikely event of the Government deciding to close the Museum these arrangements might have to be reconsidered''.…

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND Book; New; Fast Shipping from the UK. No. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. A wide-ranging overview of Britain's public art collections by the museum director and diplomat Cecil Harcourt-Smith, former Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Drawing on decades of experience at the centre of British cultural administration, Harcourt-Smith surveys the major national holdings—from the British Museum and National Gallery to provincial institutions—while advocating for broader public access, improved curation, and enhanced state responsibility for the care of national treasures. Uncommon thus. BOOK: Publisher's blue cloth boards; some foxing to end-papers, contents otherwise fine. DJ: Jacket darkened to spine, presents very well.…