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Vanderbilt, William Henry

 
9781120039453: The Private Collection Of W. H. Vanderbilt (1879)

Synopsis

The Private Collection of W. H. Vanderbilt is a book written by William Henry Vanderbilt in 1879. The book is a detailed account of Vanderbilt's extensive art collection, which was one of the largest and most valuable in the United States at the time. The collection included paintings, sculptures, and other works of art from various periods and styles, including Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo. Vanderbilt provides a comprehensive description of each piece in his collection, along with its history and provenance. The book also includes photographs of many of the artworks, as well as a detailed index. The Private Collection of W. H. Vanderbilt is a valuable resource for art historians, collectors, and anyone interested in the history of American art collecting.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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