Barbizon Days Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye
by SMITH, Charles Sprague
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: A. Wessels Co. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1902. Hardcover. In full dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt and green decorations and lettering on cover and spine. With numerous captioned, tissue-protected black & white photos of the environs of the Barbizon area and of some of the work of the artists described here. Top edge gilt, with deckled fore- and bottom edges. Covers with minor edgewear and one bumped corner. Some interior pages are loose, but textblock is mostly firm. Interior pages clean and bright. The Barbizon School of painters in France was a communal haven for artists. This work recounts a summer spent in the areas once frequented by Jean-Francois Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Theodore Rousseau and Antoine Louis Barye. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 232 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73582
- Title
- Barbizon Days Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye
- Author
- SMITH, Charles Sprague
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- A. Wessels Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...