Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy By the President
by Reynolds, Joshua
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Redding, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: T. Cadell,, 1778. Full Contemporary Calf. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 8vo, pp. [8], iv, [5]-326, [2] ads; contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked with a new calf spine retaining the original label lettered in gilt. English portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. He was the founder of the Royal Academy and dedicated this work to King George III who knighted him and to whom this work is dedicated.. First Edition. Very Good. 8vo..
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- Bookseller
- Quaker Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 884439
- Title
- Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy By the President
- Author
- Reynolds, Joshua
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Cadell,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1778
- Bookseller catalogs
- NY2008;
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- Rebacked
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Gilt
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- Calf
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