Birket Foster Water-colours
de Foster, Birket
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- GD ++/GD/ND
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: Apr.1921* Publisher: A & C Black.* Binding and cover condition: Brown paper covered boards. Dark green title and tipped on colour plate with dark green frame entitled 'At the Spring' on the front board. Some bumps rubs and age to front, spine and edges GD* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY The end-papers are slightly browned, very minor foxing to free end papers and with dark rust marks near binding staples but contents clean, crisp, tight and bright. Some small creases to corners of several pages GD++* Illustrations:16pp colour plates, these are bright and clean.* Pages: 20 pp. text. Contents page, No Index.* Description: This is one in the ?Black?s Water-Colour Series? containing 16 full page art-paper reproductions in colour of water-colours by Myles Birket Foster 1825-1899. He was an illustrator and wood-engraver for Punch, The Illustrated London News and other publications. He later found work as a book illustrator and turned to water-colours. He was an Associate of the Watercolour Society and exhibited at the Royal Academy travelling widely in Europe and producing numerous landscapes but later became well known for his sentimentalised view of the contemporary English countryside. He died on 27 March 1899. His obituary in The Times referred to him as "certainly the most popular water-colour artist of our time".* A GD copy of the 1st. thus with some age & wear.*
Sinopsis
Oscar Wilde's fairy tales have value for both children and the adults who read to them the tales of a pleasure seeking prince, a selfish giant, and more.
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- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 346
- Título
- Birket Foster Water-colours
- Autor
- Foster, Birket
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - GD ++/GD/ND
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Adam & Charles Black , London
- Lugar de publicación
- London UK 20
- Fecha de publicación
- 1921-04-01
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