John C Tait (7 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Sec 3, pp. 119-130, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamplet, else VG.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps are slightly rubbed to edges, no fading or tears. Bump to bottom front corner of wrap and corners of most pages. Ownership sticker to top of title page, no other inscriptions noted, bright and clean internally with little wear. This is a Canadian publication and text is in French and English.…

hardcover. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Scarce. Text in English and French on inverted pages. Pages are in excellent condition. Illustrated card covers with white titles. Very light wear on the corners and edges. NEAR FINE Size: 8 1/2 x 11. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1998 British Museum Press paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. British Museum in April 1995. Subtitled 'Origins, innovations and influences', its focus was the materials, techniques, iconography, patronage and trade of gilded and enamelled glass made in Egypt and Syria during the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, encompassing the origins of the technique in the Byzantine and early Islamic periods and its influence on production in Venice and other European sites between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. The collected papers have now been edited and highly illustrated in colour and black and white to produce the first major publication on the subject since 1930. The twenty-nine specialist contributors include archaeologists, art historians, historians, scientists and glassmakers from Cairo, Ifrane, Jerusalem, St Petersburg, New York, Berlin, Bonn, Starnberg, Venice, Granada, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Bristol and London. The book makes a significant contribution to the study of Islamic art and to glass studies generally and will be an essential source of reference for both collectors and scholars. With 31 colour and 180 black and white illustrations Contents: 1. Byzantine glass: problems of terminology and chronology; 2. Byzantine gilded glass; 3. Painting on glass before the Mamluk period; 4. Polychrome decoration on glass from Khurasan; 5. Pottery and glass: lustre and enamel; 6. Syro-Egyptian glass, pottery and wooden vessels; 7. A note on textual sources for the history of glass; 8. Lamm's classification and archaeology; 9. Glass and brass: parallels and puzzles; 10. The Cavour Vase and gilt and enamelled Mamluk coloured glass; 11. An enamelled glass bowl with 'Solomon's seal': the meaning of a pattern; 12. Islamic enamelled beakers: a new chronology; 13. The Palmer Cup and related glasses exported to Europe in the Middle Ages; 14. Poetry on enamelled glass: the Palmer Cup in the British Museum; 15. The Baltimore beakers; 16. Some speculations on the original cases made to contain enamelled glass beakers for export; 17. European inventories as a source for the distribution of Mamluk enamelled glass; 18. Gilded and enamelled glass in al-Andalus; 19. Islamic glass at Buddhist sites in medieval China; 20. Mamluk glass from China?; 21. Enamelled glass made for the Rasulid sultans of the Yemen; 22. The import and manufacture of glass in the territories of the Golden Horde; 23. Gregorio's Tale; or, Of enamelled glass production in Venice; 24. An enamelled beaker from Stralsund: a spectacular new find; 25. Islamic gilded and enamelled glass in nineteenth-century collections; 26. Blue and other coloured translucent glass decorated with enamels: possible evidence for trade in cobalt-blue colourants; 27. Composition and technology of Islamic enamelled glass of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; 28. Analyses of early enamelled Venetian glass: a comparison with Islamic glass.…

Wraps. Condition: Good. 8vo [ca. 40]pp Scarce early San Francisco imprint: 'A journal of school and home education, and official organ of the Department of Public Instruction ' (upper wrapper). This issue contains information on the geography of Cali fornia, articles entitled 'Ungraded Schools', 'Oakland College School', etc . VG- in wrappers (ex-library marks; slight wear to spine; slight rubbing t o wrappers, slight stains, creases and browning throughout; few previous ow ner's pencil annotations).advertising matter. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 94 pages. Fiction: June the Giant Killer; Thanks for the Party; The Way it Ended; This Character Sawyer; The Long Denial; Penitence. Articles: Atomic Test Case - what may happen at Bikini; The Drys Try Again - trying to bring back prohibition; Queen of the Quickies - Ann Corio, stripeuse of burlycue; California's Elephant Boy, Early Warren; Niagara - The World's Greatest Splash; Texas Shooter Ad Toepperwein; The Young Idea in Art - awards for high school students; Nash car ad; Photo of Chief Pilot Jack Jefford, of Alaska's Civil Aeronautics Administration, with King Chris, his DC-3; Nice Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover features tobacco farmer; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Chase, Francis (cover); Schmidt, Al; Leydenfrost, A.; Shook, Euclid; Pennington, Harry Jr.; Hill, Homer; Beall, C.C.; Knopf-Pix, Hans; Kling, Wendell; Downes, Willard; (illustrator). …