Michael Ayrton; W. J. Turner; Various — Aspects of British Art

London, Collins, 1947 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study on the varying aspects of British art, complete with colour plates and the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This volume is a first edition. A richly illustrated survey of British art, exploring watercolourists, portraitists, romantic painters, sporting scenes, and cartoonists. Includes 48 colour plates and numerous monochrome illustrations. Collated and complete. Edited by W. J. Turner, featuring an introduction by artist and critic Michael Ayrton, with essays by noted figures such as H. J. Paris, John Russell, John Piper, David Low, and Guy Paget, offering diverse perspectives on British artistic heritage. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Two small red pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Slight cockling to gutters of paste downs. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities and wraps resulting in the odd very minor chip and closed tear. Offsetting to inside wraps with one or two spots. Not clipped, but a red pencil mark struck through the original price, not obscuring. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with offsetting to half title and final leaf. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.