IDEA: EIN BEITRAG ZUR BEGRIFFSGESCHICHTE DER ALTEREN KUNSTTHEORIE. PANOFSKY, Erwin.

First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 145. Original publisher's beige cloth, lettered black on spine and front cover. Text in German. Art theory - Studien der Bibliothek Warburg, 5. Illustrated in black and white throughout. An early and rare work by Erwin Panofsky. Pencilled note on the front endpaper of 'Mayer Coll' ie. From the library of J.P. Mayer (1903 - 1992). Professor Emeritus at Reading University and author of books on De Tocqueville, Max Weber and French political thought. He fled to England in 1936 having been a leading figure in the anti-Nazi movement in Germany. He then worked for Britain in the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Faint discolouration to cloth, faint spotting and very slight tanning, overall a sound, decent, very good copy.