Shelfmark
Id6.3.06
Author
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
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.
Added entry--name
Rice, David Talbot, 1903 - 1972 joint author.
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Billing and Sons printer.
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George Routledge and Sons publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
England Guildford.
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England Esher.
Identifier
B43733