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The Birth of Western Painting.

BYRON, Robert, & David Talbot Rice.

  • Published: 1930 , London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd,
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd,, 1930. First edition, first impression, number 513 from a limited edition of 650 copies. Quarto. Frontispiece and 93 plates. Original red cloth with white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, roundel to front board in blind, red top-stain. With dust jacket. Lightly rubbed at extremities. An excellent copy in the rubbed and dulled jacket with some nicks, closed tears and creases.

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