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  • AUGUSTAN ENGLAND
    GEOFFREY HOLMES
    First published in 1982, Augustan England provides ample substance to reinforce the thesis that the years from 1680 to 1730 mark the most decisive stage in the rise of the English professional classes before the 19th century, and that this had profound consequences in maintaining the relative ‘openness’ of 18th century society until the advent of industrialization. This book pr...

    $860.00

  • DRAWINGS IN PEN & PENCIL FROM DÜRER'S DAYS TO OURS, WITH NOTES AND APPRECIATIONS
    GEOFFREY HOLMES
    Excerpt: "A drawing is a thing to be looked at and not written about. Pages and pages written about it will not make a good drawing bad nor a bad drawing good; nor will they, unfortunately, really equip and instruct anyone to know the one from the other—should he happen to lack that subtle sense whereby such things are known; for the reason why one drawing is justly ranked as a...

    $39.70

  • THE AGE OF OLIGARCHY
    GEOFFREY HOLMES / D. SZECHI
    The second volume, on early and mid-Georgian Britain, shows how the country used its expanding wealth, its new-found social cohesion at home and its international influence abroad to become not only a European but an imperial power. As with the first volume, every aspect of the period is covered. ...

    $3,300.00