Leon Amiel Publisher, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First, Illustrated By: Pieter Bruegel -- The Elder
Pink coloured textured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and some rubbing to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning of the text block and of the internal pages. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, showing reproductions of two of Pieter Bruegel -- The Elders' works with gilt background and back titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and to the dustwrapper creases. There is a 0.25 " tear to the top right-hand corner of the rear dustwrapper panel. Rust marks to the verso of the dustwrapper. " It is often said that the Netherlands has produced more than its share of the world's great painters. Pieter Bruegel, The Elder, who painted in the middle years of the sixteenth-century, is among the most important of these artists. As painter of landscapes, Bruegel's works often emphasise religious and moral themes in which his gift for visual satire is given full play." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Not paginated, II, 38 pages of text followed by 96 pages of colour reproduction of artists' work.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Pieter Bruegel -- The Elder. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Art & Design; Art -- History and Theory; 16th Century; Art & Design. ISBN: 0814806414. ISBN/EAN: 9780814806418. Inventory No: 0108106.
Pink coloured textured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and some rubbing to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning of the text block and of the internal pages. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, showing reproductions of two of Pieter Bruegel -- The Elders' works with gilt background and back titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and to the dustwrapper creases. There is a 0.25 " tear to the top right-hand corner of the rear dustwrapper panel. Rust marks to the verso of the dustwrapper. " It is often said that the Netherlands has produced more than its share of the world's great painters. Pieter Bruegel, The Elder, who painted in the middle years of the sixteenth-century, is among the most important of these artists. As painter of landscapes, Bruegel's works often emphasise religious and moral themes in which his gift for visual satire is given full play." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Not paginated, II, 38 pages of text followed by 96 pages of colour reproduction of artists' work.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Pieter Bruegel -- The Elder. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Art & Design; Art -- History and Theory; 16th Century; Art & Design. ISBN: 0814806414. ISBN/EAN: 9780814806418. Inventory No: 0108106.