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Papermaking and the art of watercolor in eighteenth-century Britain : Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill (Yale Center for British Art series)
by Theresa Fairbanks Harris and Scott Wilcox ; with essays and contributions by Stephen Daniels, Michael Fuller, and Maureen Green
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0300114354
- ISBN 13
- 9780300114355
- Seller
-
Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
This handsome and engaging book looks at how Vinters and Turkey Mill is a superb example of Sandby's art and an important document both of the rise of industry in the British countryside and of the intertwined developments of papermaking and the art of painting in watercolor. In addition, the book features other watercolors by Sandby and materials relating to the processes of papermaking and to the Whatman family and its mill. x, 164 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. First edition, first printing. Brown boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016091
- Title
- Papermaking and the art of watercolor in eighteenth-century Britain : Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill (Yale Center for British Art series)
- Author
- Theresa Fairbanks Harris and Scott Wilcox ; with essays and contributions by Stephen Daniels, Michael Fuller, and Maureen Green
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300114354
- ISBN 13
- 9780300114355
- Publisher
- Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2006
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Springhead Books
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Rochester, Kent
About Springhead Books
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