Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England. de Hammelmann, Hanns. Boase, T. S. R., editor - 1975

Yale University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New Haven, Connecticut & London: Yale University Press, 1975. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket has a couple short closed tears. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with 45 plates on special glossy paper. Index of Authors and Titles. General Index. 7.5" wide by 10" tall. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) Ltd. by Yale University Press. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. From the dust jacket: "The art of book illustration in eighteenth-century England has a special quality. Although no individual artist was as accomplished as the great French masters, a tradition of integrating pictures with the text emerged. The fact that this tradition was not pursued elsewhere, except in Venice, fascinated the late Hanns Hammelmann. He devoted years of patient research to… Leer más

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped quarto. Hardcover. Good/good. blue cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 125 pp 45 plates.

Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) Ltd, New Haven, first edition, 1975. Cloth, 4to, 26 cm,. xiv, 120, [1] pp, 45 plates. From the blurb: "The art of book illustration in eighteenth-century England has a special quality. Although no individual artist was as accomplished as the great French masters, a tradition of integrating pictures with the text emerged. The fact that this tradition was not pursued elsewhere, except in Venice, fascinated the late Hanns Hammelmann. He devoted years of patient research to unravelling the life-stories and works of the artists who speciialized in book illustration. In his lifetime Mr. Hammelmann published articles on several of the better-known artists including Fuseli, Vanderbank, Stothard, and the prolific Taylor family. An early death prevented him from assembling his further notes and reshaping the published material, with the object of creating a biographical dictionary of the artists and a catalogue of their… Leer más

Yale University Press, 1975-11. Hardcover. Good.