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Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly By An Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman (SECOND EDITION, REVISED)
by Alexander Walker
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London : Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Drawings: Henry Howard. SECOND EDITION, REVISED. On title page: "A Critical View of the General Hypotheses Respecting Beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, Etc. and Followed by A Similar View of the Hypotheses of Beauty in Sculpture and Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, Etc." Hardbound brown textured cloth, blind embossed border design; spine cloth has been replaced. Front hinge cracked, binding sound. Owners name on front flyleaf, no other writing within; frontispiece, flyleaf and title page detached. Twenty-two tinted plated. xxi, 395 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 071754
- Title
- Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly By An Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman (SECOND EDITION, REVISED)
- Author
- Alexander Walker
- Illustrator
- Drawings: Henry Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Henry G. Bohn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1846
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Philosophy; Physiognomy; Beauty Hypotheses; Da Vinci; Hume, Hogarth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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Hendersonville, North Carolina
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