Two Thousand Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Peabody Institute Library, the Walters Art Gallery

Dorothy E. Miner

ISBN 10: 0800879198 / ISBN 13: 9780800879198

Published by Taplinger Publishing, New York, 1980

About this Item

201 pp., profusely illustrated, 4to, card wrapper. Good copy; contents generally fine, light wear to wrapper edges, a few small light marks on textblock edges.

Seller Inventory # 6114

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Two Thousand Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Peabody Institute Library, the Walters Art Gallery
• Publisher: Taplinger Publishing, New York
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800879198
• ISBN 13: 9780800879198
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Early manuscripts and paleography

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Synopsis

In the summer of 1965, one of the largest, comprehensive exhibitions of calligraphic masterpieces of the Western world was mounted in Baltimore by 3 major art institutions: the Walters Art Gallery, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Peabody Institute Library. This elegant, large-format volume, as well as being the exhibition catalog of that event, is a complete survey of calligraphy produced over the last 2,000 years. Containing 218 carefully chosen reproduced plates, representing every important development in the history of letter form. This book is a treasure trove for calligraphers and calligraphiles.