A PAGEANT OF PAINTING FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Two volumes

CAIRNS, Huntington and John Walker (editors). A PAGEANT OF PAINTING FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Two volumes. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Folio. Cloth, dust jackets. xviii, 254 pages; vii 263 pages. First edition. Featuring 255 full color plates of artwork found in the National Gallery of A Along with each plate is "a quotation appropriate to the painting, the artist his philosophy, his period, or his subject", as well as a comment on the work itself by the editors. Very good in rubbed and chipped dust jackets.