Hogarth: A Life and a World
by Uglow, Jennifer
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374171696
- ISBN 13
- 9780374171698
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. Cloth, xviii, 794 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. Stated First edition. Dust jacket, with a small open tear/crown of the spine, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "In 1130, at the age of thirty-three, William Hogarth began a series of six paintings called A Harlot's Progress. From humble beginnings as an engraver of silver plate, he was now well on his way to becoming one of the greatest and most popular figures of his age: a satirist with an unerring eye, an artist of flamboyant, overflowing imagination, and a painter of vibrant color and tenderness." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124072
- Title
- Hogarth: A Life and a World
- Author
- Uglow, Jennifer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0374171696
- ISBN 13
- 9780374171698
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / British & Irish; European / 5. Baroque & Rococo; Genre & Subject / Genre (Everyday Life);
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