Theodore Duret; J. E. Crawford Flitch — Manet and the French Impressionists

London; Philadelphia, Grant Richards LTD; J. B. Lippincott Company, 1912. Cloth. The second edition of Theodore Duret's striking academic and artistic study on the Impressionists. The second edition of this work in English.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one wood engraving, and thirty-one plates.Collated, bound without the four etchings and three of the wood engravings, facing pages 102, 110, 118, 136, 134, 146, and 210.A beautiful study on the French Impressionists, looking into the lives and works of Manet, Pissarro, Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Morisot, Cezanne, and Guillaumin.The author, Theodore Duret, was a notable art critic, as was one of the first advocates for Impressionists like Manet. By Theodore Duret, translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, with marks to the boards and spine, heavier to the front board. Spine is a little discoloured. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Front hinge is strained, endpaper and frontispiece detaching with it. Rear hinge is starting. Prior owner's ink signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot and handling mark. Plate facing pages 64 and 160 are detaching. Lacking 7 plates. Good . Ill.: Various. Good .