An Elizabethan Inheritance: The Hardwick Hall Textiles (SIGNED)

Levey, Santina M. (SIGNED)

ISBN 10: 0707802490 / ISBN 13: 9780707802497

Published by National Trust Enterprises Ltd, London, 1998

About this Item

285 x 220mm. pp. 112. English text. Signed first hardback edition of 'An Elizabethan Inheritance: The Hardwick Hall Textiles' by Santina M. Levey. Flat-signed by author in black pen to f.e.p. Colour and black and white illustrations. Bound in original maroon boards. Housed in maroon pictorial dust jacket. Moderate foxing to top edge of text block, and inside surface to dust jacket. Also features a few further light bumps and marks. Binding strong. No underlining. Dust jacket protected with removable mylar cover. See images.

Seller Inventory # 044800

Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Elizabethan Inheritance: The Hardwick Hall Textiles (SIGNED)
• Publisher: National Trust Enterprises Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0707802490
• ISBN 13: 9780707802497
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Hardback Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good +
• Signed: SIGNED
• Seller catalogs:
  • Carpets,Textiles and Dress

About this title

Synopsis

An Elizabethan Inheritance provides an account of the social, economic and artistic environment in which the owners of Hardwick Hall furnished the house with such sumptuous textiles.

About the Author

Santina Levey, FSA, worked at the V&A Museum for 20 years, the last nine of them as Keeper of the Department of Textiles. She was responsible for the collections of lace, embroidery and vestments, and also worked more generally with objects from the 16th and 17th centuries.