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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I Do not in this book presume for a moment to intrude upon the functions of the Art Critic or to enter into fields of technical inquiry outside the range of those studies in which my duty lies. I do not forget the rule of the younger Pliny: De pictore sculptore fusore judicare nisi artifex non potest.? Art is indeed a matter of common human concern and every man of ordinary education has a right to an opinion if not upon its technical qualities yet at least upon the thoughts which it conveys and the influence which it exercises over his own mind.2 I travelled on the Continent when I was a very young man and from the first it was my habit to make notes never of course intended for publication – on the chief pictures in the great continental galleries. Many of the pictures to which I refer in the following pages are described from careful personal examination. (MP)