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Ostergard, Derek E. (editor) et al.
William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye For the Magnificent.
Publisher: Yale Unversity Press for The Bard Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New Haven & London;
Date of Publication: 2002
Stock Code: 12743
First Edition. Quarto, pp. 448. Illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Orange end-papers. Top edge a little dusty; early and late leaves inclined to stick together with associated mark to rear free end-paper. No annotation or inscriptions. Dust-jacket lightly spine sunned. A very good copy in like dust-jacket. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name at Bard Graduate Center and Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2002, featuring 175 of the finest examples of decorative arts that were part of William Beckford’s renowned collection. William Beckford, the wealthy British collector par excellence, was one the pioneers of collecting Asian and Islamic artwork and an avid connoisseur also of an eclectic mix of ancient, medieval and Renaissance art, as well as interesting objects from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The text by a number of experts, includes biographical material on Beckford’s life, travels and architectural projects including Fonthill Abbey, his Gothic Revival edifice in Wiltshire. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £75.00