Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837: Volume II The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

382pp. Extensively illustrated with monochrome photographs (156 illustrations, featuring the works of Pellegrini, Ricci, Amiconi, Devoto, William Kent, William Hogarth, Clermont, Parris, Zucchi, Boyle, Thornhill, James Barry, William Blake, John Zephaniah Bell, William Etty and others) Bound in mid-blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine; coloured endpapers; top edge gilt. Very gentle rubbing at extreme corners. Internally bright, crisp, clean and fresh. A lovely copy of this seminal work on English decorative painting. Volume two only but complete in itself covering the major part of the 18th century and the early 19th century.