Nicholas Hilliard
1961, First Edition. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and foxed dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Faint foxing to edges and prelims. Remains well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright and clean. Item #476578
Physical description; xxiv, 352 pages : illustrations (part colour), portraits (part colour), facsimiles ; 26 cm. Notes; "Catalogue": pages 287-335. Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-338). Contents; Nicholas Hilliard the man – The rise – Broadening outlook – Maturity – Eventide – Nicholas Hilliard as a goldsmith – Nicholas Hilliard as a writer – Hilliard's contemporaries, followers and pupils. Subjects; Hilliard, Nicholas (c. 1547-1619) – Criticism and interpretation. Portrait miniatures, English – 16th-17th centuries. Portrait painters – England – Biography. Goldsmiths – England – Biography. Elizabethan England.
Price: €48.00