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The Master's Apprentice
by Rick Jacobson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0887767834
- ISBN 13
- 9780887767838
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Tundra Books , 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson. Unpaginated; slim large format HC in unclipped DJ. Pictorial boards. VG+/ VG+. Fictional story of a young boy apprenticed to the young artist Michelangelo Buonarroti. Beautiful colour illustrations. A lovely introduction to Florentine art and to Michelangelo.
Synopsis
Award-winning illustrator Laura Fernandez was born in Spain, and immigrated to Canada as a young child. With Rick Jacobson she is co-owner of Jacobson Fernandez Illustration and Design Inc. The illustration team has won many awards for their work in advertising and publishing, including the Ruth Schwartz Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award, and numerous national and international awards. Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson have illustrated over seventeen published children’s books. Laura Fernandez is also a songwriter, performer, and recording artist as well as a New York International Independent Music Festival Award-winner. She resides in Toronto, with her family. Rick Jacobson has authored three children’s books, and with Laura Fernandez, has illustrated seventeen children’s books. Together they have won awards for their work in advertising and publishing including the Ruth Schwartz Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award and numerous national and international awards including the Toronto Art Directors’ Awards, Communication Arts Magazine’s Award of Excellence, American Illustration Award of Excellence, and the New York Art Directors’ Award of Excellence. He has been featured in Smithsonian magazine and in The Artist’s Magazine . His commissioned portraits include Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Christopher Ondaatje, and David Thomson. He is currently working on a show of his landscape paintings. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his family.
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- Bookseller
- Reading Rat
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RRAB1993
- Title
- The Master's Apprentice
- Author
- Rick Jacobson
- Illustrator
- Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0887767834
- ISBN 13
- 9780887767838
- Publisher
- Tundra Books
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2008
- LCCN
- 2007927390
- Keywords
- art renaissance Florence Michelangelo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
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About the Seller
Reading Rat
Biblio member since 2008
Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Reading Rat
Home based bookseller of quality used books; wide variety of titles with emphasis on Canadian authors, including but not limited to history, poetry and literature
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