Ward-Jackson (Peter), 1915-2015

(24.5 cm), 44 pp., with 53 illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A series of three innovative essays, published originally in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Bulletin (volume 3, 1967, pp.58-71, 90-103, 121-134). The essays “retain their freshness and authority to this day” (Simon Jervis, obituary of Peter Ward-Jackson, in The Burlington Magazine, May 2015, p.347) and were reprinted in 1984, to complement the V & A exhibition “Rococo: art and design in Hogarth’s England”, and again in 1992 (Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin Reprints, ISBN 9780901486493). ¶ Light shelf-wear.