Picon, Gaetan — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

New York, Albert Skira / Rizzoli International, 1980. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Translated from the original French by Stuart Gilbert, this being a First Edition Thus copy drawn from the original First Edition published in 1967. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, covered in green cloth, only slightly worn and scuffed, sumptuous gilt illustration to front cover. Clean, unmarked interior but for a previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, minimal rubbing to extremities. Sans original dust jacket. Big, tall oblong format, 13 1/2" x 12 1/4" wide and tall, respectively. 145 illustrations all in. 152 pp., featuring a color frontis, full color and black-and-white illustrations, and complete with chronology, bibliography, a list of illustrations, an index, and notes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine