Schulz Phillip Walter (1 results)

First edition. Vol. I is number 18 from a limited edition of 20 on Van Gelder paper, intended to be bound in leather, this copy is in slightly variant red cloth. This "groundbreaking two-volume study of Islamic painting" by one of the pioneers of Islamic art history in Germany was "undoubtedly" his major publication. In it, "Schulz attempts not only to highlight the chronological development of Persian painting style, but also to provide very helpful, even by the contemporary standard, lists of artist names and signatures" (Gierlichs). The second volume of plates includes several reproductions of pieces from Schulz's own private collection. Gierlichs, "Phillipp Walter Schulz and Friedrich Sarre: Two German Pioneers in the Development of Persian Art Studies" in The Shaping of Persian Art (2013). 2 vols, quarto. vol. 1: 17 photogravure plates and illustrations to the text, vol. 2: 200 photogravure plates. Original red cloth, titles in black to spines and to the front board within decorative panels, dark blue top edges, orange gold endpapers in vol. 1 and marbled endpapers in vol. 2. Light rubbing particularly spine and extremities, slight foxing to the edges of vol. 1, some light browning to both vols. A very good set.…