The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series)
by Dodwell, Charles R
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0300064934
- ISBN 13
- 9780300064933
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About This Item
SOFTBACK "1993 FIRST PRINTING," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 2nd with NL.* Date of Publication: 1993 * Publisher: Yale University Press. * Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft stiff card covers showing a reproduction of "The Storm at Sea," from the Hitda Codex (c1000-20), Darmstadt. Slight bump to head of spine, some slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning. Page edges slightly grubby with some marks to top edge. VG* Illustrations: Copious colour & b/w illustrations throughout to nearly every page.* Pages: 405 pp. text. lxi pp. abbreviations list, notes, bibliography and index with photo acknowledgements at rear.* Product Description:- The Western world between 800 and 1200 witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts which encompassed manuscript, wall and panel painting, and the gorgeous crafts of stained glass, mosaic and embroidery. The splendour of Carolingian illumination, the rare vitality of Anglo-Saxon art, the self-confident power and authority of the Ottonians, the exotic productions of Mozorabic Spain, and the balancing act of Italy between the styles of Byzantium and of the West are all surveyed in this lavishly illustrated account which concludes in the twelfth century with an examination of international Romanesque extending from Scandinavia in the North to Jerusalem in the South.* This is a NEAR VG+ copy of the 1st./2nd. with minimal shelf wear & marks reducing it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9031
- Title
- The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series)
- Author
- Dodwell, Charles R
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn, 2nd. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0300064934
- ISBN 13
- 9780300064933
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven and London UK. 466
- Date Published
- 1993-01-01
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