The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970
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In the modern era, the "beautiful book," an art object in its own right, has become the key to the...
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
David Hockney and Martin Gayford
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The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a...
A Tommy's Sketchbook: Writings and Drawings from the Trenches
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Henry Charles Buckle was an ordinary Tommy. A whitesmith from Tewkesbury, before the Great War he...
After Alexander: Central Asia Before Islam
Georgina Hermann and Joe Cribb
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This is a new study of the history, archaeology and numismatics of Central Asia, an area of great...
Another London
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In the years between 1930 and 1980, some of the best-known photographers from around the world came...
Antiquities
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The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic...
Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome
James Harper and Marlene Eidelheit
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This book is the first sustained scholastic treatment of the Life of Christ tapestries, which were...
Decorative Designs of C.F.A. Voysey, the RP
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Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) is chiefly remembered today as one of the leading...
Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
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Early Modern Merchants as Collectors encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often...
French Hussars: From the 9th to the 14th Regiment, 1804-1818: Vol 3:
Andre Jouineau and Jean-Marie Mongin
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The First Empire is responsible for giving us the most lasting picture we have of the Hussars. This...