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hardcover. Zustand: Good. Decorative cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Beautiful Children. Immportalised By the Masters. With 50 Reproductions in Colour of Famous Paintings wear to corners bumped.It is always my aim, since the exact illustration of photography gives so well the main idea of pictures, to write concerning such pictures, as an aid to the full undertanding of them, the history of their makers and sitters and their relation to the age that bred them, rather than to attempt an aesthetic estimate of their artistry, which can appeal at the best of the few; the more particularly as the few will gain a really true estimate of their artistic value only by close study of the originals. Contents: Concerning the Fleeting Wonder that is Called Childhood. The Coming of the Child into the Kingdom of Art. The Flemish Genius. The Spanish Genius The French Genius. The British Genius. Illustrated with 50 Reproductionplates in Colour of Famous Paitings. 318 pages. .prev owners name and date 1910 inside cover.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Hardcover. Sm. 4to. 27cm, xii, 209p., decorated title-page, 48 colourtipped-in plates (missing 2 including frontis), captioned tissueguards, decorated blue buckram, oval colour plate mounted on upperboard, gilt decoration & titles, scattered light foxing, lacking 2plates else very good Extensively illustrated with colourreproductions of famous paintings of children with artists includingRubens, Van Dyke, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Kneller, Largilliere, Reynolds,Gainsborough, Millais, Sargent. Decorations on title-page and endpapersby Garth Jones.