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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003100841
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 0112900372. 1971, bright clean copy, with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981. Seller Inventory # 159382
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear, staining and minor water damage; still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller. Seller Inventory # mon0000081611
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 6 leaves, 92 pp; 47 plates; plates I-IV; 42 figs. Original linen, large square 4to. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 20699
Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of John Rowlands with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; [10], 92, 47 p., 4 fold leaves : ill. [some col.] ; 31x31 cm. Notes; At head of title: Victoria & Albert Museum. Bibl.p. 83-92. Subjects; Devonshire, Dukes of. Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles and Dress. Devonshire hunting tapestries. Tapestry. Tapestry Themes, motives. Tapestry, Medieval France. Hunting in art.Tapestry Europe History. Devonshire, Dukes of Art collections. Tapestry, Medieval England. Tapestry Great Britain. Tapestry France. French tapestries, (c.1430-c.1445) Special subjects Hunting Devonshire Hunting Tapestries Critical studies. Hunting Depictions. Tapestry Sets and series. Tapestry France (1425-1449). Genres; Devenshire Hunting Tapestries. 2 Kg. Seller Inventory # 288619
Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of John Rowlands with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; [10], 92, 47 p., 4 fold leaves : ill. [some col.] ; 31x31 cm. Notes; At head of title: Victoria & Albert Museum. Bibl.p. 83-92. Subjects; Devonshire, Dukes of. Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles and Dress. Devonshire hunting tapestries. Tapestry. Tapestry Themes, motives. Tapestry, Medieval France. Hunting in art.Tapestry Europe History. Devonshire, Dukes of Art collections. Tapestry, Medieval England. Tapestry Great Britain. Tapestry France. French tapestries, (c.1430-c.1445) Special subjects Hunting Devonshire Hunting Tapestries Critical studies. Hunting Depictions. Tapestry Sets and series. Tapestry France (1425-1449). Genres; Devenshire Hunting Tapestries. 2 Kg. Seller Inventory # 288619
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Blank cover page has some dust marking but otherwise book is clear and bright. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> The famous medieval tapestries with hunting subjects which belonged to the Dukes of Devonshire and were at Hardwick Hall before being acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1957 are the subject of this monograph. Dating from before the middle of the fifteenth century, their great size and the vigour of their design, conceived entirely without perspective, give them their unique interest. It has been claimed that they are to be associated with Henry VI's marriage to Margaret of Anjou; this and their attribution to the looms of Arras are here discussed. Also their place in the chronology of tapestry design, a section which is illustrated with eighteen of the finest secular pieces between 1400 and 1521. A chapter on the practices of medieval hunting and hawking adds colour to the scenes which are here described; the commentary on the notable costume worn by the lords and ladies who take the field is supplemented with a d. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM307-VG-7628
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-0112900372-3