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BLUNT'S COPY BLUNT, ANTHONY. Phoebe Pool. Degas. Signed, "A.F. Blunt," on the front free endpaper. 4to, publisher's cloth, some fading to edges and spine; moderate loss to dust jacket spine panel, complete separations at panel folds repaired with cello tape, moderate scattered soiling. London, 1963; inscription: Np, 1960s
Anthony Blunt (1907-1983) was a prominent British art historian who, in 1964, confessed to having worked as a spy for the Soviet Union. Although he was stripped of his knighthood, he avoided further punishment because he had been promised immunity as a condition of his confession. Blunt wrote an obituary for Pool in the March 1972 issue of Burlington Magazine.
