The Arts
$30.00 USD • Used
Author and illustrator Hendrik Willem van Loon shares with the reader, in words and with his pictures, the sweeping history of art. Beginning with cave drawings, he describes the history of painti...
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Author and illustrator Hendrik Willem van Loon shares with the reader, in words and with his pictures, the sweeping history of art. Beginning with cave drawings, he describes the history of paintings, sculpture, architecture, music and other "minor" arts, through the 19th century. Illustrated throughout by Mr. van Loon. With general outline of the history of art to endpapers, and a fold-out dust jacket with map of the history of art. --- In full red-orange cloth-covered boards with shield design in gilt to cover, pasted-on color illustration to spine with gilt-stamped spine titling; black topstain. Dust jacket with color van Loon painting to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy: bright and lacking significant damages. Fold-out dust jacket/map with a few tears but mostly in good shape.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxiii, 677, (2) pages
Product Info
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Year: 1939
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Seller Info
BluebirdBooks
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Country: United States
