On the library coffee-table
Clive James, 17 March 1983
An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration
by Mario Praz, translated by William Weaver.
Thames and Hudson, 396 pp., £35, March 1982,0 500 23358 6 Show More
by Mario Praz, translated by William Weaver.
Thames and Hudson, 396 pp., £35, March 1982,
“... Christoffel himself spent a large part of the war preparing a new edition of his standard work on Holbein, which he finally managed to get published by Verlag des Druckhauses Tempelhof in 1950. The colour plates are unimprovably good and the reproduction of the drawings is the equal of the Phaidon Holbein Drawings at ... ”