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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. 1st edition (October 2, 2002. Paperback. Good. see pictures,this is a very heavy oversized paperback book it is been in lightly read several times the cover is clean and has good color, it has a dark background with a gentleman sitting with a dog and some books on the cover … There is some wear in a few little scratches on the colored cover itself the binding is glued and it is intact there is a little bit of rolling and bent corners on the right-hand top bottom the interior of the book is clean and has no highlighting or extraordinary marks however on the title page there is an inscription… it has a lot of interesting photographs in black and white in color of drawings and illustrations and paintings that the subject of the book did …. it's not perfect but it's in fairly good shape, there are couple of dirt marks or marks on the edges of the pages but nothing horribly disfiguring… 780374528515 Hogarth: A Life and a World Paperback–… Read More

Great Britain: Faber & Faber. Very Good. 1997. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0571169961 Paperback Paperback. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Hogarth. A Life and a World. Couple of small creases to cover. William Hogarth (1697-1764) stamped his name on an era - Hogarth's England. His prints hang in pubs and leap out from history books. He painted thje great and good but also the common people. In this powerful, rich and copiously illustrated biography, the author uncovers Hogarth the man, but also the world he sprang from and the lives he pictured - in his progresses of the Harlot and the Rake, in the fashionable Marriage A-la-Mode and the horrifying Gin Lane, and in his many conversation pieces, portraits and prints. Hogarth's story is a fascinating one: he moved in the worlds of theatre, literature, journalism and politics, and he lived through a period of extraordinary changes: the time of the British empire, with… Read More