Roseline Bacou; James Emmons [Tranlsation] — Millet: One Hundred Drawings

London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A delightful first English edition offering 100 illustrated plate reproductions of Jean-François Millet"s drawings, four of which are in colour. In the publisher's original cloth binding, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This is the first English edition of this work.This volume provides a large curated selection from Millet"s sketches, studies, and finished works on paper, reproduced across 100 high-quality plates, four of which are in colour, with Bacou"s scholarly introduction and commentary. Collated, complete. Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) was a French Realist painter and draftsman celebrated for his dignified depictions of rural life and peasant labour. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Previous owner's small inscription to front paste down. Dust wrapper, lovely. slight age toning to extremities. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Jean-François Millet. Near Fine .