Hogarth's progress / Peter Quennell
1955, 1st edition. London: Collins. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Illustrated end-papers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #312589
Physical description: 318 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, facsimile, portraits; 22 cm. Notes: Illustrations on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304) and index. Contents: Bartholomew close -- The battle of taste -- Annus mirabilis -- London background -- The pictorial dramatist -- Covent garden -- Tom rakewell -- People and places -- Marriage-a-la mode -- Portrait of the artist -- Calais gate -- The line of beauty -- Humours of an election -- Wilkes and churchill -- "Tail Piece: the bathos". Subjects: Hogarth, William 1697-1764. Artists England; Biography. Artists. England. English eighteenth century painting. Genre: Bibliography. Biographies.
Price: €21.00