Tarkington, Booth: Some Old Portraits : A Book About Art and Human Beings

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Tarkington, Booth : Some Old Portraits : A Book About Art and Human Beings

Doubleday, 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

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