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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935., 1935. First edition. First edition. Tall quarto. Quarter leather and linen, xix [1], 151 [2] pp., frontis., acknowledgment, foreword, illustrated. "Arthurs was interested in art as a boy, and, after leaving school, he studied in Wilmington with Clawson Hammitt, who urged him to study with Howard Pyle. Convinced of his talent, Pyle enthusiastically accepted him as a student. Although Arthurs illustrated a great deal of popular literature, his real specialty was illustrating historical texts. His pictures were as historically accurate as he could make them. He did several murals of historical subjects for the State House in Dover, Delaware, and for the Minnesota State capitol building and produced a long series of historical paintings for DuPont Company calendars and the DuPont Magazine. Many of these were published in book form in the American Historical Scene." Fine without dust jacket, as issued. Housed in a matching cloth slipcase… Leer más