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England: Antique Collector's Club Ltd. , 1993. An exploration into the work of artist George Chinnery, featuring photographs of his work. VG copy in fine DJ. . 28 x 22.5 cm. 320 pp. b/w plates and color photographs, diagrams.

Antique Collectors Club, 1993, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 11x8x1. First Edition. 4to. 320 pp. Color and b/w illustrations. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket. Fine in Fine jacket. In archival mylar sleeve.

Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/NF. Royal blue cloth/boards. Gilt lettering. Color-illus. dj with butter-yellow lettering. 320 pp. with 113 color and 189 bw images. Among British artists George Chinnery is a special case. Having left Britain at the age of twenty-eight, he spent the last fifty years of his life on the other side of the world - twenty-three of them in India, twenty-seven on the China coast. If he had remained in Britain, or even in Europe, he would probably have been caught up in the changing fashions of art and taste, allying himself with one coterie or another. As it was, he forfeited all the achievements that would no doubt have been his, by spending the great majority of his working life in the Far East, and much of it in a small community of western expatriates. Yet Chinnery was a talented and brilliant artist, a portrait and landscape painter, often working in miniature, he painted industriously, producing many portraits of the western… Read More

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Antique Collectors' Club. New. 1993. Hardcover. 1851491600 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 320 pages; 113 color plates and 189 black and white illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- .