Books on Art History
Item Details
A group of five books on art history. This collection features a hardcover first edition of The Taste of Angels: A History of Art Collecting from Rameses to Napoleon by Francis Henry Taylor, published by Little, Brown and Company in 1948; this book is bound in beige cloth with brown, green, and gilt ornamentation and a dust jacket. Also included in this set is a paperback 12th edition of The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich, published by Phaidon Press in 1972; a hardcover 7th edition of Gardner’s Art Through the Ages by Helen Gardner, revised by Horst de la Croix and Richard G. Tansey and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1980; and more.
Condition
- light edge wear throughout; page discoloration; most books have interior inscriptions; The Taste of Angels has broken hinges and a tattered, stained, and water damaged dust jacket; Art: An Introduction has some torn and bent corners, some highlighting and underlining, two stamps to the interior, and includes stained and discolored class notes; Men of Art has loose hinges and binding, bumped spine ends, and some small stains.
Dimensions
- measures Art Through the Ages.
Item #
16CIN998-294
