Victor Rienaecker — John Sell Cotman 1782-1842

Leigh-on-Sea, F. Lewis , 1953. First edition. Cloth. First limited edition of this study of the life and work of John Sell Cotman. First edition of this work, limited to five hundred copies of which this is number one-hundred-and-fifty-one. A biographical study of English marine and landscape painted John Sell Cotman, leading member of the Norwich School of Painters. Written by Victor Rienaecker. Illustrated with fifty-eight full page plates, including four tipped in full colour reproductions of Cotman's work. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, faint minor damp marks to rear board, back strip and upper margins of boards faded. Faint library shelf number inked to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Usual library stamps throughout. Pages otherwise bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .