Diderot's Thoughts on Art and Style With Some of His Shorter Essays.
by Denis Diderot
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About This Item
London, UK Rivingtons, 1904. Hardcover Second Edition [1904]. Good: Shows significant indications of use. Binding shows slight spine lean; moderate to heavy wear to extremities; darkening and soiling to blue cloth over boards. Binding remains secure; but rear hinge well started; text clean. Overall, remains a clean, fairly sturdy, considering its age. A reading copy. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 274pp. Selected and Translated by Beatrix L. Tollemache. Deckle fore-edge. Gilt titles at front face and backstrip. Second Edition [1904]. Hardback: Lacks DJ. Excellent collection of Diderot's musings on art and aesthetics. Chapters with titles such as "What Everyone Knows about Expression, and Something which all the World does not Know." and "A Lament for my Old Dressing Gown". Second Edition.
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- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42255
- Title
- Diderot's Thoughts on Art and Style With Some of His Shorter Essays.
- Author
- Denis Diderot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition [1904].
- Publisher
- Rivingtons,
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1904.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Lit Criticism and Theory; Art History; French Lit; Essays; Prose & Criticism; Literature; Literary History; Prose;
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