A History of Mosaics.
by ANTHONY, Edgar Waterman
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About This Item
Boston: Porter Sargent, (1935). First trade edition. Quarto (10.5" x 7.5"), 332 & [1] pages plus LXXX plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth.
Binding lightly soiled & sunned, bruise at the top edge of the lower cover, brief foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good.
An exhaustive account, chapters include: The Origin and Spread of Mosaic; The Characteristics and Technique of Classical and Christian Mosaics; Hellenistic and Roman Mosaics; Roman Mosaics from the Fourth to the Seventh Centuries; The Mosaics of Ravenna; Other Early Mosaics to the Seventh Century; The Seventh and Eighth Centuries; The Roman School of the Ninth Century; The Eleventh Century in the Near East; Sicilian Mosaics; Venetian and Florentine Mosaics; Roman Mosaics of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; The Fourteenth Century; From the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century; Nineteenth Century and Modern Mosaics.
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1496
- Title
- A History of Mosaics.
- Author
- ANTHONY, Edgar Waterman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Porter Sargent
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- (1935)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mosaics, Europe, Religion, Illustrated, Decorative Arts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorative Arts; Europe; Religion, Philosophy, Occult;
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