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A hardcover 2nd edition, 1934, published by Browne and Nolan.
Condition - externally lacks dustjacket and the covers are badly scuffed, wear to head and tail of spine, the green cloth is bumped at the corners. Fair only.
Condition - Internally , a former art college library copy - so some leibide went through it and put a library ownership stamp on many many pages internally ( especially on the blank pages behind the reproduction plates)
FINE AS A READING/ REFERENCE COPY only, NOT 'Collectible; grade.
In 1908, Sir Hugh Lane (1875–1915), art dealer, collector and Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, had offered 39 paintings from his modern collection to the Dublin municipal authorities provided that a modern art gallery was built to house the paintings. There was little support for Lane’s plan. In frustration, he withdrew his offer in 1914 and, instead, bequeathed the paintings to the Trustees of the National Gallery, London. In February 1915, he changed his mind again and in a codicil to his will restored the collection to Dublin. No witnesses signed the codicil and controversy began following the death of Lane in the Lusitania disaster. The case was simple enough. The paintings belonged legally to the Trustees of the National Gallery, London, but there was a strong moral argument that Lane had intended to leave them to Dublin. The Irish Government took up the case as a high profile example of British injustice.
