Art

Catalogue of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, very numerous illustrations (many in colour) from watercolours, landscapes, ornithological drawings, photographs, diary entries, musical settings and manuscripts, introductory essays, chronology, bibliography, index, 216 pp, black cloth with gilt title on front cover, in d/w, spine of d/w faded and chipped at top, otherwise in very good condition, Royal Academy of Arts in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1985

27.8 x 20.6 cm, 1310g, ISBN 0 29778 635 0

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.  Like many catalogues of “serious” exhibitions, the book becomes an authoritative work on the artist and his times.

The book was also published in paperback, but surely a book of this size and weight should be in hardback?