An Introduction to Persian Art Since the Seventh Century A. D. by Pope, Arthur Upham - 1930

Peter Davies, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1930. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. B&W frontispiece. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked. Pen marks to front paste down. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.

London: Peter Davies, 1931. Paperback. Fair. 6 x 10 in. Green paper covers. Large section of B&W photos. Condition is FAIR ; Front cover detached, rear cover missing, spine a mess, binding solid. Looks like hell in general but text, map, and plates are fine. Art. Stax.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover. Good. Mostly clean and tight but with very occasional marginalia in pencil. Covers tight but soiled. Art museum bar code and spine number.. Butterscotch cloth/boards with black lettering. No dj. xvi + 258 + v pp. with sections of 103 bw images between last two sections. Bw frontis. Folding bw map of Persia bound into back of book. Includes a preface, list of plates, introduction, list of principal monuments, historical table, and summary bibliography. Contents include architecture/architectural ornamentation, ceramics, book arts, carpets, textiles, metal, Persian gardens, minor arts, and sections on formative factors in Persian art, the expansion of Persian art, and "contemporary" ar in Persia and future prospects. Quite an enlightening study, illustrated with lovely bw plates. Published in NY by Scribner's but printed in Britain.

London: Peter Davies, 1930. First Edition. Grey Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. N/a. 256pp. 1930. First edition. 4to. small sized. No jacket. Original publisher's grey cloth - gilt embossed to the spine. No inscriptions. Frontispiece with tissue-guard (in super condition). A fold-out map to the rear (in lovely condition) and a plate section at the rear to include 103 b/w illustrations. A couple of stains with tide-marks to the head of the front board - the largest being 3.5cm x 3cm and a longer narrow stain to the extreme head of the rear board measuring 11cm x 1.2cm. No signs of moisture damage to the book/pages themselves. Some spotting - not heavy - to the fore-edges. A very good minus, tight essentially clean copy.

London, Peter Davies, 1930;. 1st edition. Softcover. Good+ condition. xvi, 256pp with over 100 illustrations, a chronological table and a fold-out Map. Neat pencil & faded ink notes on endpapers & inside cover, internally very good & clean. Green covers with black title on front & spine. Light edge wear to spine extremities. .

Peter Davies, London, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. with over 100 b/w. illustrations, a chronological table and a b/w. fold-out map; tissue-guarded b/w. frontis. illust.; “The high quality of Persian art, its verve and distinction, its mastery of abstract ornament and poetic colour harmonies and its sensitive appreciation of the nature of material, have won the admiration and affection of the discriminating, and the scholar has come to see in it the fountain source of many derivative styles.” chapters include: Historical Outline; Architecture & Architectural Ornament; Ceramics; The Art of the Book; Carpets; Textiles; Metal; Some Minor Arts; Persian Gardens; Formative Factors in Persian Art; The Expansion of Persian Art; & Contemporary Art in Persia & Future Prospects; together with a list of some of the principal monuments. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 + 103 plates & index. Spine browned… Read More

London: Peter Davies, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 256p; section of plates and 5p index. A beige cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine slightly cockeyed. Edges lightly tanned. Endpapers foxed. Otherwise clean and tight. Contains a large section of black and white plates. Foldout map of Persia in back.