Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$230.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 4to. 29cm by 24cm. pp xvi, [2], 236. Original publisher's white cloth over red buckram boards, lettered gilt on spine. Edition limited to 600 copies. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout - frontispiece and 93 further plates. This book is heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Slight foxing to preliminaries with slight surface wear and faint fleck marking at spine, otherwise sound, clean, near very good+.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. Quarter white buckram, red-brown cloth boards. Spine slightly darkened, some light spotting of pages and edges; slipcase worn. Edition limited to 650 numbered copies "for England". Byron wrote the words, Talbot Rice was responsible for the many pictures. "The universe is eternal, and man, with all substance, bestrides the temporal dimension. In his heart there is a goal: eternity is bounded by perfection. To say that man has attained this or that far towards perfection is not sense; there can be no fractions of infinity . . ."
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Large, thick quarto. Gilt lettered three piece cloth, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontis and 93 plates. Large woodcut bookplate of H. I. McMorran on front pastedown. Hint of slight darkening to the white spine, otherwise very near fine. First edition. One of 650 numbered copies for distribution in the UK. Knopf distributed 365 numbered copies in the US the following year.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BYRON, Robert, and David Talbot RICE. The Birth of Western Painting A History of Colour, Form, and Iconography, illustrated from the Paintings of MISTRA and MOUNT ATHOS, of Giotto and Duccio, and of EL GRECO London, George Routledge & Sons, 1930. 4to. xvi, 236 p., with 94 final plates, including frontispiece. Half-title. Limited edition of 650 copies (No. 524). Plates clean and bright, margins of printed leaves slightly spotted throughout; very light age browning. Quarter cream buckram, cloth over boards with blind-stamped centrepiece on front cover, gilt title to spine. Hand-cut gatherings. Spine lightly darkened with a few negligible stains of blue ink. Binding edges and corner occasionally bumped, without serious damage. U.e.r. A very good copy.
Seller: Symonds Rare Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1283.27 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, number 359 from a limited edition of 650 copies. Quarto. Original white cloth-backed red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, roundel to front board in blind, top edge red, others untrimmed. With dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece and 93 plates. Some minor soiling to foot of spine, sporadic light foxing to contents. An excellent copy in a rubbed jacket with small ballpoint pen mark to spine panel, a few nicks and tiny closed tears.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom