Taylor Basil Intro (11 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Revised Edition. No date. WorldCat has 1950 for the date. Jacket is torn. Top 1/6th of back of jacket is torn out. Soil and big damp spot on back of jacket. Name in pencil on front end paper. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. D.j.s have some edgewear (few small closed tears and chips) (in brodarts). Volume 1: Text 231 pages. Numerous black & white illustrations. Volume 2: Plates 231 pages. Few color and numerous black & whtie illustrations. U.S. orders are shipped from Lewiston, NY location.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pair of First Edition hardcovers in glossy illustrated paper covered boards showing light color loss at lower edges from storage, with grey cloth spines in complete color illustrated dust wrappers in new mylar. Rear of vol II picked up color from neighboring volume before it was placed in new mylar. Both volumes display well on the shelf. Inside, there is light foxing on endpprs, each volume has 231pp for a total of 462. Profusely illustrated in b/w with some color plates. In the eventful century and a half between the reigns of Queen Anne and Queen Victoria, English painting had its greatest flowering since the Middle Ages. But until Mr. and Mrs Paul Mellon assembled their collection, there was in the United States no extensive documenting of this great era of British art. Public and private collections still stress the monumental formal portraits of the 18th century, with an erratic representation of the other aspects of English painting in this period. With dedicated enthusiasm Mr and Mrs Mellon went about selecting works that now form one of the most representative and distinguished records anywhere of the pictorial art of England from 1700 to 1850, and certainly the finest in private possession. Their collection, however, is not an art historian's check list; it is a rare, personal probing of a neglected era, and the resulting assemblage is both as informative as it is refreshing. This first showing of the Mellon English collection presents over 250 paintings, and a lesser number of water colours, drawings and illustrated books. The display, like the catalog, is divided into four major parts: 1) landscapes; 2) portraits, 'conversation pieces', and scenes of contemporary life; 3) animal and sporting pictures; and 4) religious, historical and mythological paintings. - (Taken from Leslie Cheek Jr's Foreword.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG / -- Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution B/w illustrations. Stapled booklet with beige card covers. Binding is firm and tight. No inscriptions. Not ex-library.

Hardcover. folio. pp. 96. many full-page illus. (some colour). cloth (private owner's bookplate on front pastedown). First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition hard cover in very good condition, with clipped dust jacket in good condition for its age. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning and foxing to DJ, inside and out, with creasing, nicks and wear to cover, edges, corners and folds. Age related blemishes noted. Cream boards are very clean, with minor foxing present. Tanning and light foxing to pageblock, tanning leading into pastedowns, endpapers and page edges. Within, pages are tightly bound, text and images unmarked. CN. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition hard cover in very good condition, with clipped dust jacket in good condition for its age. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning and foxing to DJ, inside and out, with creasing, nicks and wear to cover, edges, corners and folds. Cream boards are very clean, with minor foxing to head and cloth spine. Tanning and light foxing to pageblock, tanning leading into pastedowns, endpapers and page edges. Within, pages are tightly bound, text and images unmarked. CN. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Size: 4to 9 3/4 - 12". 16pp + ills. Binding firm. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket marked with faded spine. Edges foxed and browned. Covers marked. 40 illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Art & Design; Poland & Britain; Modern; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 59827.…

13pp inc short biographical note plus 40 plates. Pictoral boards with cloth spine, 25x19. Beautiful copy in dust wrapper. Herman's career was devoted to picturing working men and women, as featured here.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to in tan linen backed illustrated boards, black lettering to spine, 13pp text etc., plus 32pp b/w plates on glossy art paper . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked copy (merest hint of tanning to covers and page-block edges) in a very slightly edge-rubbed but otherwise FINE complete Dust Jacket (tiny closed edge-tear to bottom edge of rear panel, looks fine in its removable transparent protector). An excellent copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Condition: Good. Exhibition Catalogue. 8vo. Stapled Wraps. 56 pp. B&W Plates. 114 items described in catalogue. Very Good.