Author: Raymond Lister, R.M.S., F.R.S.A.
Published: 1951 Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., London
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Format: Book
No. Pages: 114 text, plus 68 pages of b&w plates pgs
Size: about 11 x 8-1/4 inches
Edition: first edition
Cover: hardcover cloth
Illustrations/Photos: b&w photos
Language: English
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About this Book:
A good collectible edition of this book, although lacking jacket. From the Preface:
It is now some years since a general handbook was published on the British miniature — that beautiful and fascinating art which has flourished on our soil for well over a thousand years. It is true that in recent years much has been written on the subject of Nicholas Hilliard and his contemporaries, but great though these painters were they represented only one phase in a long and interesting development which began in Celtic monasteries at the dawn of Britain's civilized history, hundreds of years before Hilliard's birth. I have written this book partly in the hope that this true perspective may be restored, partly in the hope of meeting the demand for an up-to-date general handbook on the subject, and partly in the hope that such a book may help to assure the future of British miniature painting.I should like to make grateful acknowledgment to all those who have courteously and patiently allowed me to examine specimens from their collections; to the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Librarian of Trinity College, Dublin, the Dean of Lichfield, the Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and to others for allowing works in their collections to be reproduced; to my friend, Mr. Arthur K. Astbury for his frank criticisms; and lastly to my wife, Pamela, for her patient co-operation and criticisms and for typing the manuscript.
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