Published by Thames and Hudson (1981), London and New York, 1981
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. first U.S. edition. Octavo (approx. 6 3/8" wide by 9 5/8" tall), red-ornage cloth covers, 114 illustrations, 256 pages. Includes index. Price-clipped dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are in near fine condition. 020922B Occult, Stone Monuments.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York, 1981, 1985
ISBN 10: 0500201846 ISBN 13: 9780500201848
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
21.0 x 14.5cms, 216pp, 187 b/w & 54 colour illusts, very good+ paperback The chapter headings are: Crete 3,000 - 1,550 BC; the Cyclades 3000-1550 BC; mainland Greece 3000-1550 BC; the major arts in the Late Bronze Age; the minor arts in the Late Bronze Age.
Published by Thames & Hudson London & New York 1981, 1981
ISBN 10: 0500021015 ISBN 13: 9780500021019
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Very Good + Med 8vo, 232pp, b/w & Colour Illusts Very Good + Hard Cover This book has chapters on the birth of archaeology, antiquaries & archaeologists (1797-1867); excavators & explorers (1867-1914); archaeology comes of age (194-1939), new and not-so-new archaeology (1939-1980).
Published by Thames & Hudson London & New York 1997 Originally Published in 1981, 1985
ISBN 10: 0500201919 ISBN 13: 9780500201916
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
21.0 x 15.0cms, 360pp, 237 b/e Illusts Very Good paperback & cover This book has entries on such themes and topics as 'drawings after the Antique', patronage, prefiguration and 'triumph'; biographies of painters, sculptors and architects; historic centres; wars, battles; treaties; families; biographies of heads of state, administrators, warriors, conspirators, scandals; historians and political commentators.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1981, 1981
ISBN 10: 0500250766 ISBN 13: 9780500250761
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32.0 x 22.0cms, 328pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: Christianity in the Roman Empire; the rise of Christian art; the conversion of the barbarian peoples; the Greek church & the peoples of Eastern Europe; medieval Christianity; popular religious movements in the Middle Ages; the age of the Reformation; the social impact of Puritanism; religioin in the age of the Baroque; Christianity & industrial society; religion at the grass-roots; Christianity in the contemporary world.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1981, 1983
ISBN 10: 0500273030 ISBN 13: 9780500273036
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
28.5 x 23.0cms, 168pp, 91 b/w & 17 colour illusts, paperback, name inked out inside cover and light tanning, interior very good. The chapters are: chronology; hunger & love in their variations; the allegorists, Kitaj & the viewer: R B Kitaj in the larger pictire; a return to London. This book was first published as the catalogue of a major retrospective.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York, 1981, 1981
ISBN 10: 0500272484 ISBN 13: 9780500272480
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
25.0 x 22.0cms, 430pp, 227 b/w & 101 colour illusts, very good paperback The chapters are: the secret revolution; the emancipation of colour; history as nightmare; reality reassembled; the cosmopolitan life; an alternative art; the dominion of the dream; a world remodelled; a lost leadership; America redefined; the great divide 1950-1970; how good is modern art?.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1981, 1981
ISBN 10: 0500012547 ISBN 13: 9780500012543
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
25.0 x 16.0cms, 184pp, 44 b/w & 4 colour illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper (sunned spine) Waldstein was a Moravian nobleman who travelled to Canterbury, London, Oxofrd, Cambridge, Theobalds, Nonsuch & Richmond in 1600.
Published by Thames & Hudson London & New York 1981, 1981
ISBN 10: 0500241112 ISBN 13: 9780500241110
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
31.0 x 25.0cms, 372pp, 133 colour plates, 162 duotone plates, 42 linecuts & 7 maps; very good hardback & dustwrapper The section headings are: portrait of the Mediterranean; Egypt & the Valley of the Nile; Mediterranean Africa; the Western Mediterranean; reflections in colour (essay); the Italian peninsula; the greek world; the Eastern Mediterranean. There are selections from Homer, Hesiod & Sophocles through to Rose Macauley, Freya Stark, Alan Ross & Bartolo Cattafi (chronologically listed here).
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1981, 1982
ISBN 10: 0500233578 ISBN 13: 9780500233573
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
32.0 x 23.0cms, 278 b/w & 173 colour illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: the ancestors of wallpaper (incunabula, doinotiers): influences & discoveries (Moguls, Cathay, flock wallpaper): the golden age (ie France, 18th century); grandeur & decadence; the last great stylists (William Morris, art nouveau, young America, jugendstil, bauhaus); contemporary wallpapers; wallpaper & the arts; wallpaper & painting; the flower as a recurrent motif; early techniques (16th- early 19th century); industrial techniques (photogravure, fleography, screen printing, new materials).
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York, 1981, 1981
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
20.0 x 14.0cms, 96pp, 32 facsimile pages in colour & gold; 7 comparative b/w illusts, fine hardcover & slipcase The so-called Maitre Francois executed this richly decorated manuscript for Edward Montague Stuart Granville, Earl of Wharncliffe sometime between 1475 and 1480.