HALS,FRANS. Slive,Seymour. — Frans Hals.

London, & New York, Phaidon, 1970-1974. 3 vols. 240, [12],[302], XII,194 pp. 776 ills & 16 col . plts. Orig. uniform hardcovers (brown cloth with gilt lettering on spines), d./j. 4to. - Dust jackets of vol. 1 & 2 worn along the extrimities; vol. 3 three with some library marks: binding very neat except for a small sticker on the spine; an ex-libris and a sticker on the first endpapers of this last volume, otherwise very neat.Complete set: volume 1: text; volume 2: plates; volume 3: catalogue. - - Text in English. - - Set from the library of Julius Samuel Held (1905-2002). Each volume with his bookplate on the upper past-down. Julius S. Held was an art historian, collector, and expert on Dutch painters Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. He published several monographs and was a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University, from 1937-70.