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Victorian Artists and the City: A Collection of Critical Essays
by Ira Bruce Nadel, F.S. Schwartzbach, Editors
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0080233813
- ISBN 13
- 9780080233819
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Pergamon Press, 1980 Pergamon Press, New York. 1980. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping and shelf wear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges; light rubbing to panels. No DJ. Pictorial purple front board; purple spine and rear board; white and gold lettering on the spine and front board. 170 pp 4to. This book celebrates the three types of artists that documented London in the Victorian era (1820s-1914), the Wood Engravers, the Sketchers, and the artists. The purpose of this collection is to fill a gap in the contemporary study of Victorian art and Victorian urban studies. This book focuses mainly on London which was the major urban center of England and how it has been greatly ignored in urban art and urban studies. A clean very presentable copy
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013428
- Title
- Victorian Artists and the City: A Collection of Critical Essays
- Author
- Ira Bruce Nadel, F.S. Schwartzbach, Editors
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0080233813
- ISBN 13
- 9780080233819
- Publisher
- Pergamon Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- London, Victorian Era, Queen Victoria, urban studies, urban art, woodcut art, sketching art, painters of urban scenes, George Cruikshank, urban narrative, London life
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television;
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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