Force and Freedom: Reflections on History.
New York: Pantheon Books, [1964]. Hardcover. Edited by James Hastings Nichols. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 382pp. Fine/very good. Jacket mildly age toned and spine a bit darkened, with minor edgewear only; encircled "H" inkstamped in red on front flyleaf. Item #48987
Handsome "New Edition" of these essays first published in 1943. Swiss art and cultural historian Burkhardt (1818-97) is mainly remembered for his writings about the Renaissance. Surprisingly uncommon with jacket.
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