Tapestries: Their Origin, History and Renaissance

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
John Lane Company.

BINDING
Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. Gilt top block edge.

BOOK CONDITION
Boards are worn and scuffed, especially spine. Front hinge is split and weak, but otherwise binding feels secure. Some browning to outer leaves and block edges, although printed pages and images remain largely clear and little marked. Tissue guards to frontispiece and other coloured plates are intact and in good condition.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
1912.

DESCRIPTION
A fascinating history of the art of tapestries with a focus on the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.  Four coloured illustrations and further 147 halftone engravings on plates. 438 pp plus plates. Octavo.