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Brasses and Brass Rubbing
by Suzanne Beedell
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0851529399
- ISBN 13
- 9780851529394
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: John Bartholemew, 1973. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight shelfwear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 96 pages.
For those who wish to know more about Monumental Brasses; more about the people they represent, how they are made, and how the designs and techniques developed, this book is full of information. It also describes the armour, clothes, vestments and heraldry depicted on brasses, as they changed with the centuries. All the different types of brass are illustrated and described, knights and their ladies and children, bishops, animals, inscriptions and coats of arms.
For those who wish to know more about Monumental Brasses; more about the people they represent, how they are made, and how the designs and techniques developed, this book is full of information. It also describes the armour, clothes, vestments and heraldry depicted on brasses, as they changed with the centuries. All the different types of brass are illustrated and described, knights and their ladies and children, bishops, animals, inscriptions and coats of arms.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000002743
- Title
- Brasses and Brass Rubbing
- Author
- Suzanne Beedell
- Illustrator
- Suzanne Beedell; Terence Cook (rubbings); Ginette Leach (rubbings)
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0851529399
- ISBN 13
- 9780851529394
- Publisher
- John Bartholemew
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- brasses, brass rubbing, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, UK
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Britain; Art, Architecture, and Photography; Illustrated Books;
- Size
- 8vo
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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