Buy this book on-line Tarkington, Booth : Some Old Portraits : A Book About Art and Human BeingsDoubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1939
No. 76 of 247 copies signed by the author. Front cover illustration framed in gilt; gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. 249 pages. Full-page illustrations, many in color. The author discusses the art of portrait painting and several old portraits such as: Essex on an Old Panel; King James in Faded Paint; A Portrait of Isaac Newton by John Riley; Kneller's Sarah Jennings, First Duchess of Marlborough; Gainsborough's Blackstone; A Loyalist Lady by John Singleton Copley; etc.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Illustrated Cloth Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Tarkington, Booth : Some Old Portraits : A Book About Art and Human Beings. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, livres d'occasion, out of print books, out-of-print books and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |