How to Look at Pictures Robert Clermont Witt Art & Architecture

The 1903 reprint of Witt's How to Look at Pictures, in a half vellum prize binding with intricate gilt decoration to the cloth boards and spine, with marbled endpapers and a bookplate from Hulme Grammar School, 1904. The 1903 reprint of Witt's How to Look at Pictures, in a half vellum prize binding from Hulme Grammar School, Oldham, 1904.In half vellum with intricate gilt decoration to the cloth boards and spine, with marbled endpapers and a bookplate from Hulme Grammar School.With thirty-five photographic full-page plates by various artists.Sir Robert Clermont Witt (16 January 1872 26 March 1952) was a British art historian, who, along with Samuel Courtauld and Lord Lee of Fareham, co-founded the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. A prize binding in half vellum with green cloth boards decorated with gilt. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing and handling marks to the boards, particularly joints and extremities. Marbled endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with slight marginal age toning. Spotting, heaviest to first and last few pages. Past owner's bookplate in the front paste down.Fore edge roughly cut. Very Good Indeed