The Taste of Angels: a History of Art Collection From Ramese to Napoleon by Taylor, Francis Henry - 1948

Minotaur Books , 2012. Jacket is in brodart, light wear. Boards have light wear. Set up for library use, never circulated. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex Library.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1948. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild soil/spotting to boards and spine, light foxing to endpapers, text unmarked, binding intact. 8vo 661pp. Atlantic Monthly Press Book. stated first edition, first printing September 1948. from Notice to the Reader: "...Twenty years' experience as curator and director in American museums has convinced me that the phenomenon of art collecting is too instinctive and too common to be dismissed as mere fashion or the desire for fame. It is a complex and irrepressible expression of the inner individual, a sort of devil of which great personalities are frequently possessed. It is a curious coincidence that all of the men and women dealt with in these pages were highly interesting in their own right and would, indeed, have been so even had they never collected anything in their entire lives." #02494 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Hardcover. 1948. 3rd Printing. 8vo 661pp . Very Good with no DJ. B&W Illustrations Beige decorated cloth Bottom corners lightly bumped .

Boston: Little, Brown / Atlantic Monthly, 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Illustrations Throughout. Xxx, 661 Pp. Beige Cloth. First Edition Stated. Light Usage, No Marks, Hinges Tight. Flaps Of Dust Jacket Laid In Loosely. Everyone Interested In Art Should Read This, A Recommendation Not Made Lightly.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. 1st Edition. xxx, 661p., many colored and b/w illus., slightly chipped dj (An Atlantic Monthly Press book).

First edition. Illustrated. xxx, 659 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Taylor was director of the Metropolitan Museum from 1940 to 1955. His other writings include Babel's Tower (1945); Fifty Centuries of Art (1954); and Pierpont Morgan as Collector and Patron (1957). Original beige cloth, pictorial endpapers. Spine a bit sunned and covers slightly soiled; without dust jacket. In quarter green morocco slipcase with chemise Illustrated.

TAYLOR, Francis Henry. THE TASTE OF ANGELS. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispie xxx, 661 pages, plates. First edition. A review copy, being a history of art collecting from Rameses to Napoleon, wi illustrations. Bookplate, dust jacket chipped and creased, else very good.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1948. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Stated First Edition.. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1948. Stated First Edition. Fine/no dust jacket. Fine stated first edition (first printing, published September 1948), SIGNED by author Francis HenryTaylor. wjp was director of the Metropolitan Museum from 1940 to 1955. Clean beige cloth covered boards with brown, green and beige circular decoration on cover, brown title box with gold lettering, also brown lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean. Clean decorated endpapers. NO previous owner markings. Signed simply "Henry Francis Taylor" on blank flyleaf following half-title page. Full color and photogravure illustrations, most taken from the Print and Photographic Collections of te Metropolitan Museum of Art and the personal collection of the author. The color illustrations were made from objects in the possession of the Met… Read More