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Days with Velasquez / by C. Lewis Hind

Description: This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.
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Date: 1906
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Rembrandt / by Mortimer Menpes ; with an essay on the life and work of Rembrandt by C. Lewis Hind

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This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.

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The consolations of a critic / by C. Lewis Hind ; with thirty-two full-page illustrations

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Adventures among pictures / by C. Lewis Hind; with twenty-four illustrations, eight of which are reproduces in the colours of the original paintings, and sixteen in black and white

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Velasquez / by Randall Davies ; containing sixteen illustrations in colour

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Around St. Malo / painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis ; described by Spencer C. Musson

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La cote d'Emeraude / painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis ; described by Specer C. Musson

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Days with Velasquez / by C. Lewis Hind

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