Description:
xvii+159 pages with illustrations, plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Introduction by B W Robinson. First published in 1928 by Oxford Press.This book indicates the place of painting in the culture of the Islamic word, both in relation to those theological circles which condemned the practice of it, and to those persons who, disregarding the prohibitions of religion, consulted their own tastes in encouraging it. 60 illustrations.
Condition: Wrapper soiled, edge wear with bumped corners, previous owner's name to front end paper else goodl