1970, ISBN: 9780714814070

Venice: Neri Pozza Editore. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1962. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full lime green paper boards, gray lettering on spine and cover… More...

Venice: Neri Pozza Editore. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1962. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full lime green paper boards, gray lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated with B&W illustrated plates. . Front cover slightly warped, endpapers foxed, former bookseller's stickers on rep, pages lightly toned, else fine. The unclipped dust jacket is very lighty chipped at the head of the spine, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. IN ITALIAN.. B&W Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 86, (2), 110, (4) pp ., Neri Pozza Editore, 1962, 4, London/New York: Phaidon, 1970. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. First edition. Includes slipcase. Slipcase edges rubbed, creased and lightly foxdd. Jacket spine head bumped, small tear to jacket spine base. 1970 Large Hardcover. 318 pp. With 255 plates, including 57 in color. The eighteenth century was the age of the Grand Tour in Europe. The view painters, the best-known of whom were the Venetians Canaletto, Guardi and Bellotto, produced a wide range, from grand panoramas to lively genre scenes. These topographical paintings provide a unique and colourful record of everyday life, festivities and customs in the eighteenth century, and of buildings, streets and townscapes long-since vanished. The illustrations, a large number of them in colour, are chosen from pictures in museums and private collections in many countries. They are accompanied and enhanced by a choice of descriptive narratives from the diaries and letters of travellers such as Goethe, Tobias Smollett, Charles Burney, the distinguished Count Francesco Algarotti and the Baron de Pollnitz., Phaidon, 1970, 4<

1970, ISBN: 0714814075

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780714814070], Near Fine, [SC: 36.22], [PU: Phaidon, London, UK / New York, NY], EUROPEAN PAINTING - 1675 AD TO 1800, Jacket, 318 pp, with 255 Plates, 57 in color, View Painting an… More...

[EAN: 9780714814070], Near Fine, [SC: 36.22], [PU: Phaidon, London, UK / New York, NY], EUROPEAN PAINTING - 1675 AD TO 1800, Jacket, 318 pp, with 255 Plates, 57 in color, View Painting and its Critical History (The Term :veduta", View Painting and Perspective Painting, The Origins of View Painting, The Methods of V.P, Patrons and the Grand Tour, The View Painters, Notes to the Introduction), Rome; Naples; Venice; Italian Journey; Madrid, Vienna; Munich; Dresden and Pirna; Haarlem and Amsterdam; Warsaw; Russian Journey; London; Paris - Versailles & the French Ports; Chronological Table, capsule biographies of artist-painters, bibliography, index of literary works, sources of photographs, list of collections, index of artists and places. Fr pastedown with previous owner bookplate, Lower textblock foreedge shows 1/2" shelfwear soil, top edge with darkened 1" - 2" spot near the hinge, else Fine / HC. No markings, tight binding, page surfaces clean, cloth crisp, surface black line cover design intact, with very slight wear to bottom hinge cloth edge. 10" x 11.3" gray cloth boards, black line design laid on fr cover & script letters to spine, in orange DJ. Top Inner DJ flap clipped. Orange pictorial DJ in mylar protector. Size: Large Square Quarto, Books<

1970, ISBN: 0714814075

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780714814070], Near Fine, [PU: Phaidon, London, UK / New York, NY], EUROPEAN PAINTING - 1675 AD TO 1800, Jacket, 318 pp, with 255 Plates, 57 in color, View Painting and its Critica… More...

[EAN: 9780714814070], Near Fine, [PU: Phaidon, London, UK / New York, NY], EUROPEAN PAINTING - 1675 AD TO 1800, Jacket, 318 pp, with 255 Plates, 57 in color, View Painting and its Critical History (The Term :veduta", View Painting and Perspective Painting, The Origins of View Painting, The Methods of V.P, Patrons and the Grand Tour, The View Painters, Notes to the Introduction), Rome; Naples; Venice; Italian Journey; Madrid, Vienna; Munich; Dresden and Pirna; Haarlem and Amsterdam; Warsaw; Russian Journey; London; Paris - Versailles & the French Ports; Chronological Table, capsule biographies of artist-painters, bibliography, index of literary works, sources of photographs, list of collections, index of artists and places. Fr pastedown with previous owner bookplate, Lower textblock foreedge shows 1/2" shelfwear soil, top edge with darkened 1" - 2" spot near the hinge, else Fine / HC. No markings, tight binding, page surfaces clean, cloth crisp, surface black line cover design intact, with very slight wear to bottom hinge cloth edge. 10" x 11.3" gray cloth boards, black line design laid on fr cover & script letters to spine, in orange DJ. Top Inner DJ flap clipped. Orange pictorial DJ in mylar protector. Size: Large Square Quarto, Books<

1970, ISBN: 9780714814070

Hardcover

London, UK / New York, NY: Phaidon, 1970 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Square Quarto. 318 pp, with 255 Plates, 57 in color, View Painting and its Critical History (The Te… More...

London, UK / New York, NY: Phaidon, 1970 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Square Quarto. 318 pp, with 255 Plates, 57 in color, View Painting and its Critical History (The Term :veduta", View Painting and Perspective Painting, The Origins of View Painting, The Methods of V.P, Patrons and the Grand Tour, The View Painters, Notes to the Introduction), Rome; Naples; Venice; Italian Journey; Madrid, Vienna; Munich; Dresden and Pirna; Haarlem and Amsterdam; Warsaw; Russian Journey; London; Paris - Versailles & the French Ports; Chronological Table, capsule biographies of artist-painters, bibliography, index of literary works, sources of photographs, list of collections, index of artists and places. Fr pastedown with previous owner bookplate, Lower textblock foreedge shows 1/2" shelfwear soil, top edge with darkened 1" - 2" spot near the hinge, else Fine / HC. No markings, tight binding, page surfaces clean, cloth crisp, surface black line cover design intact, with very slight wear to bottom hinge cloth edge. 10" x 11.3" gray cloth boards, black line design laid on fr cover & script letters to spine, in orange DJ. Top Inner DJ flap clipped. Orange pictorial DJ in mylar protector. ., Phaidon, 1970, 4<

1970, ISBN: 9780714814070

London/New York: Phaidon, 1970. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. First edition. Includes slipcase. Slipcase edges rubbed, creased and lightly foxdd. Jacket sp… More...

London/New York: Phaidon, 1970. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. First edition. Includes slipcase. Slipcase edges rubbed, creased and lightly foxdd. Jacket spine head bumped, small tear to jacket spine base. 1970 Large Hardcover. 318 pp. With 255 plates, including 57 in color. The eighteenth century was the age of the Grand Tour in Europe. The view painters, the best-known of whom were the Venetians Canaletto, Guardi and Bellotto, produced a wide range, from grand panoramas to lively genre scenes. These topographical paintings provide a unique and colourful record of everyday life, festivities and customs in the eighteenth century, and of buildings, streets and townscapes long-since vanished. The illustrations, a large number of them in colour, are chosen from pictures in museums and private collections in many countries. They are accompanied and enhanced by a choice of descriptive narratives from the diaries and letters of travellers such as Goethe, Tobias Smollett, Charles Burney, the distinguished Count Francesco Algarotti and the Baron de Pollnitz., Phaidon, 1970, 4<