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Id6.3.06

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Title

The birth of Western painting : a history of colour, form, and iconography, illustrated from the paintings of Mistra and Mount Athos, of Giotto and Duccio, and of El Greco / by Robert Byron and David Talbot Rice ; with 94 plates.

Publication, distribution, etc.

London : George Routledge & Sons. Ltd., Broadway House: 68-74 Carter Lane, E.C., 1930 (Guildford ; Esher : Billing and Sons, Ltd)

Physical description

xviii, 236 p., [188] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.

Note

"The text and notes are by Robert Byron. The bulk of the illustrations is the work of David Talbot Rice" -- p. v.

Note

Descriptive letterpress on versos facing the illustrations on plates.

Note

Publisher's white half binding; with red cloth boards; title, and authors, and publisher stamped in gold on spine; gold stamped device of the Holy Ghost from plate 8 as centrepiece on upper cover.

Binding

Without dust-jacket.

Subject

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Painting Greece Mistra.

Subject

Painting Greece Athos.

Subject

Mural painting and decoration, Byzantine.

Subject

Christian art and symbolism.

Subject

Painting, Byzantine.

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Billing and Sons printer.

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England London.

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England Guildford.

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England Esher.

Identifier

B43733
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