The Splendour Of Islamic Calligraphy

New York.: Thames and Hudson.. Revised and expanded edition.. 1996.. 232 plates in colour and black & white, 239pp, index, Original cloth covered boards, lettered in white and in a very good dustwrapper. 30.5 x 23.5cm. A near fine copy. There are new chapters on the use of Islamic calligraphy in architecture and contemporary painting in this lavish study. .… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli, [1976]., 1976. 4to. pp. 254. 174 illus. (54 in colour). biblio. cloth. dw. (several short & long tears to extremities, some surface lament peeling near head of spine). First Edition of the English Translation.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

New York, Rizzoli first U.S. edition, hard cover in dust jacket Here are assembled scripts as they evolved and show the independence, in Islamic calligraphy, of script and page decorations with its arabesques, miniatures, floral and geometric motifs and fields of colour. They show whole pages, single sentences, and even details of certain letters, to bring out the architecture and… Read more about this item