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A Survey of Persian art from prehistoric to the present. London, New York, Oxfor University Press, 1938-1939. 3 volumes of text and 6 volumes of plates in folio, 378 x 287 (text), 374 x 283 (plates). Text and plates : xviii, 895 pp; xi pp, pp.897-1807; xi pp, pp. 1809-2817, 1 map; (1 blank f.), ix pp, (1 f.), 75 plates, (1. f.), plates 76-127, (1 f.), (1 f.), plates 128-145, (1 f.), plates 146-257; (1 blank f., ix pp, (1 f.), plates 258-554; (1 blank f.), ix pp, (1 f.), plates 555-811; vii pp, (1 f.), plates 812-980; ? pp, (1 f.), plates 981-1106, (1 f.), plates 1107-1275; vii pp, (1 f.), plates 1276-1433, (1 f.), plates 1434-1482. Black half-maroquin with corners, spine gilt, untrimmed for the text volumes and black half-maroquin with corners for the plates (publisher's binding and slipcase). First edition of this remarkable and monumental collective work on Persian art since prehistoric times, published under the direction of art historian Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969) and historian Phyllis Ackerman (1893-1997). The work consists of three volumes of texts offering studies by numerous specialists of different nationalities, including, in addition to the editors, Ernst Herzfeld, Sir Arthur Keith, René Grousset, Sir E. Denison Ross Ross, R. de Mecquenem, Rogers Warren, Eric Schroeder, André Godard, Farajollah Bazl, etc. These numerous texts are divided into 15 parts: I. Introduction. - II. Prehistoric art. - III. Achaemenid art. - IV. Parthian art. - V. Sasanian art. - VI. The Architecture of the islamic period. - VII. The Ceramic art. - Vill. Calligraphy and epigraphy. - IX. Painting and the art of the book. - X. The Textils arts. -XI. Carpets. - XII. The Arts of metalwork. - XIII. Minor arts. -XIV. Ornament. -XV. Music. The edition is illustrated with numerous black reproductions in the text, a folding color map of Persia and includes especially apart, 1483 plates, numbered from 1 to 1482 to which is added the plate 1179a, distributed in 6 folio cases, offering several thousand photographic reproductions in black and white and in color of archaeological pieces, works of art and architectural views.
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A Survey of Persian art from prehistoric to the present. London, New York, Oxfor University Press, 1938-1939. 3 volumes of text and 6 volumes of plates in folio, 378 x 287 (text), 374 x 283 (plates). Text and plates : xviii, 895 pp; xi pp, pp.897-1807; xi pp, pp. 1809-2817, 1 map; (1 blank f.), ix pp, (1 f.), 75 plates, (1. f.), plates 76-127, (1 f.), (1 f.), plates 128-145, (1 f.), plates 146-257; (1 blank f., ix pp, (1 f.), plates 258-554; (1 blank f.), ix pp, (1 f.), plates 555-811; vii pp, (1 f.), plates 812-980; ? pp, (1 f.), plates 981-1106, (1 f.), plates 1107-1275; vii pp, (1 f.), plates 1276-1433, (1 f.), plates 1434-1482. Black half-maroquin with corners, spine gilt, untrimmed for the text volumes and black half-maroquin with corners for the plates (publisher's binding and slipcase). First edition of this remarkable and monumental collective work on Persian art since prehistoric times, published under the direction of art historian Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969) and historian Phyllis Ackerman (1893-1997). The work consists of three volumes of texts offering studies by numerous specialists of different nationalities, including, in addition to the editors, Ernst Herzfeld, Sir Arthur Keith, René Grousset, Sir E. Denison Ross Ross, R. de Mecquenem, Rogers Warren, Eric Schroeder, André Godard, Farajollah Bazl, etc. These numerous texts are divided into 15 parts: I. Introduction. - II. Prehistoric art. - III. Achaemenid art. - IV. Parthian art. - V. Sasanian art. - VI. The Architecture of the islamic period. - VII. The Ceramic art. - Vill. Calligraphy and epigraphy. - IX. Painting and the art of the book. - X. The Textils arts. -XI. Carpets. - XII. The Arts of metalwork. - XIII. Minor arts. -XIV. Ornament. -XV. Music. The edition is illustrated with numerous black reproductions in the text, a folding color map of Persia and includes especially apart, 1483 plates, numbered from 1 to 1482 to which is added the plate 1179a, distributed in 6 folio cases, offering several thousand photographic reproductions in black and white and in color of archaeological pieces, works of art and architectural views.
