Charles H. Caffin - How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods - New York, The Century Co., 1910 - 2nd edition - original edition: 1905 - XV+513p. - Hardcover: linen binding with gold-printed front board and spine in intaglio, with gilt top edge, photographic material printed on quality paper - 15.20x21.90cm - Good copy: some wear and use traces on the cover edges, gold printing of the spine weathered, front endpaper loose in the text block (otherwise the binding is intact and firm,

• Charles Henry Caffin (1854–1918) was an Anglo-American writer and art critic, born in Sittingbourne, Kent, England. After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1876, with a broad background in culture and aesthetics, he engaged in scholastic and theatrical work.

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