Title: Francisco Goya: A Study of the Work and Personality of the Eighteenth Century Spanish Painter and Satirist
Author: Hugh Stokes
Publisher: Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers
City: LondonYear: 1914 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 397Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: Scarce first edition from 1914 of Francisco Goya: A Study of the Work and Personality of the Eighteenth Century Spanish Painter and Satirist. With 48 full-page illustrations. Measures 9.5" x 7". Red cloth boards with gilt decorations and title on front and on spine. In very good condition: minor wear to boards; binding is tight and solid; foxing on endpages and on many page borders; pages are otherwise clean and free of interior writing, save for inscription on third page (please see below for more information). A beautiful edition, detailing the work and life of Spanish painter and satirist Francisco Goya, considered the most important Spanish painter of the 18th and early 19th century. Inscribed to Captain R. Grace White, from a Portuguese book collector (unable to decipher name): White was the American commander of the SS Imperator, an ocean liner built
for the Hamburg America Line, launched in 1912. Although in German and English
all ships are usually referred to as feminine, during his Hamburg American Line
career, the ship was referred to as masculine at the special request of Kaiser
Wilhelm II. When the SS Imperator made its maiden voyage in
June of 1913, it was the largest passenger ship in the world. (Picture included in photos!)
