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BYRON, Robert & David Talbot Rice.
The Birth of Western Painting.
A History of Colour, Form, and Iconography, illustrated from the Paintings of Mistra and Mount Athos, of Giotto and Duccio, and of El Greco. With 94 Plates.
Publisher: London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1930
Stock code: 69511
Price: £1,250 Currency Conversion
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 650 numbered copies.
Quarto. Original red cloth with white cloth backstrip, titles to spine gilt, roundel to upper board in blind, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 93 plates. Lightly rubbed at extremities. An excellent copy in the rubbed and dulled jacket with some nicks, closed tears and creases.
