Smith Vincent Codrington (5 results)
Published by The Clarendon Press, 1930
- Hardcover
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.Midtown Scholar Bookstore
Contact seller5-star sellerhardcover. Condition: Acceptable. With cracked hinges This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Oversized.
Language: English
Published by Oxford, Clarendon Press,, 1930
Seller: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, GermanyBooks and Beaches, Anna Bechteler
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
£ 59.67
£ 40.90 shippingShips from Germany to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Condition: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding, xvi, 238 pp., 165 illustrations on plates, private dedication on front free endpaper, endpapers a bit foxed, obituary of Prof Codrington loosely inserted, very good condition. Standart reference, very well illustrated with numerous samples from India - a beautiful book. Heavy book, ad…ditional shipping is likely. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.
More imagesPublished by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1930
- Hardcover
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 98.00
£ 19.99 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A smart second edition of this illustrated history of fine art in India and Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. Second edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates, one hundred and sixty-one black-and-white plates, and fourteen in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensiv…e history of fine art in India and Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. With chapters on India and its art, the Mauryan Period, the early period, Mathura and Amaravati, foreign influences, the Gupta Period, medieval cave-temples, early schools of Indian painting, architecture and sculpture, Southern India, Ceylon, Java, central Asia, Tibet, and Nepal, as well as the Indo-Muhammadan decorative and minor arts. Written by Vincent Arthur Smith, an Irish Indologist, historian, member of the Indian Civil Service, and curator. He was one of the prominent figures in Indian historiography during the British Raj. Revised by Kenneth de Burgh Codrington, a British archaeologist and art historian of India who was Keeper of the Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum and later Professor of Indian Archaeology at the University of London. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges firmly bound with sympathetic repairs made to the front hinge using paper tape. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the extremities. Contemporary ink inscriptions and the bookseller's ink stamp to the front endpaper. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1930
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSecond edition (revised). Quarto. Blue coth hardcover; decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xvi,238pp. Tight and straight but with a bit of rubbing and soil to spine; still a quite attractive, Very Good copy. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover. A revision of Smith's… 1911 work, with added illustrations.
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1930
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSecond (Revised) edition. Quarto; blue cloth gilt; xvi,238pp; 165pp plates (incl. color frontispiece). Mild offsetting to endpapers, else a tight and handsome copy, Very Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Revision of the 1911 first edition, edited by Kenneth de Burgh Codrington.
