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History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts from the Dawn of History to the Present Day
by HW Janson with Dora Jane Janson
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/As New
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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About This Item
Harry N. Abrams, NY, 1971. Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Publisher's full grey cloth, gilt lettering on black panels on spine and cover, maps on endpapers. Profusely illustrated with 970 illustrations, including 88 color pages, many with gold. Horst Waldemar Janson (1913-1982), who published as H. W. Janson, was a Russian-born German-American professor of art history best known for his History of Art, which was first published in 1962 and has since sold more than four million copies in fifteen languages. Janson's signature contribution to the discipline of art history, specifically to the teaching of art history, is his survey text entitled simply History of Art, which become the standard by which current art history textbooks are measured. Clean and unmarked, tight, square, and clean. A large and heavy book Color and B&W Illustrations. 615 pp Newly Seventeenth Printing.
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- Bookseller
- The FW Collections
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H455
- Title
- History of Art
- Author
- HW Janson with Dora Jane Janson
- Format/Binding
- Gray covers with black title plate on front and spine with gold imprint
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Seventeenth Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall and Harry Abrams
- Place of Publication
- NJ NY
- Date Published
- December 1973
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART;
- Size
- 9x11.75
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About The FW Collections
The FW Collections include a wide range of Vintage and Newer Books, Maps, Posters, Poetry, Magazines, Prints, Fine Art, Ephemera, Photographs, Paper from 50 years of collecting. Favorite topics: vintage midwest, visual arts, farming, politics, governance, cultural variations, WWII, and history, family life and vintage children's Books
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