Lambourne, Lionel — Victorian Painting

London, Phaidon Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Well over 600 full-color illustrations. Introductory chapters, and then those devoted to portrait painting, oil painting versus watercolour painting, genre painting, panorama painters, fairy painting, sporting and animal painting, the Pre-Raphaelites, the nude, classicism, women artists of the Victorian period, and more. This is a superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in black cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out.[9], 10-512 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good