Conversation Pieces: A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America woodcuttings February 1980"

February 1980"

Boards well rubbed with one corner restored

III General Synthesis

Softback in the original pictorial covers

Conversation Pieces: A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America woodcuttings February 1980"London: Methuen, 1971. Hardback with the excellent dust jacket, just a couple of short, repaired tears to edges to detract. 287 pages, 31 colour plates and 349 b w illusts. A near fine copy. The "conversation piece" is an intimate group portrait usually of small dimensions which became fashionable in the Low Countries before flourishing in 18th century England. Its declined was hastened by the invention of photography. NB: AS THIS IS A HEAVY BOOK AN