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Apollo, An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages
Salomon Reinach
Florence Simmonds, translator
351pp.; 18.5 x 12.7 cm. Dark greeen cloth boards lettered in gold to front and spine, with decorative medallion to front.
Published London: William Heinemann, 1907
Part of Sources, I
From the library of A. David Moody
First English translation of Salomon Reinach’s popular History of Art, with a postcard to A. David Moody laid-in, dated Crete 14.9.73, “to greet you with a sense of things Greek & peaceful,” from Joe Oldroyd, with the same illustration of a “Young Cretan Girl” found as a fresco in the Palace of Cnossus. Cloth to spine broken at the bottom, but otherwise a good copy.