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PUBLICATION DETAILS: Second printing. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. 8”w x 10”h. Not paginated. 752 illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. .

CONTENT: “Besides evaluating more than 700 prints as works of art, A. Hyatt Mayor’s far from conventional account of the medium points out precise effects of prints on literacy, commerce science, fashions, religion, and political power – in short, it deals with print’s effects upon people, placing the art itself in the stream of life.” (DJ.)

MAJOR: Alpheus Hyatt Mayor (1901–1980) was an American art historian and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a leading figure in the study of prints, both old master prints and popular prints. He graduated from Princeton in 1922 and subsequently taught art history at Vassar for one year. He received a Rhodes scholarship and attended Christ Church College at Oxford University, earning a second degree in 1926. Mayor spent the following academic year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. In 1932 he joined the Department of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

CONDITION: Book and DJ in very good condition

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A. Hyatt Major