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Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection Hardcover - 2012
by Kathryn H. Brown
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- Title Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection
- Author Kathryn H. Brown
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Slp
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Prestel Publishing, Munich
- Date 2012
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9783791347561 / 379134756X
- Weight 7.05 lbs (3.20 kg)
- Dimensions 14.4 x 11.7 x 1.5 in (36.58 x 29.72 x 3.81 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 741.6
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US: Prestel USA, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 264 pages. Hardcover in slipcase. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This elegant volume is the first comprehensive published study in English of the finely carved wooden covers designed to protect fragile Tibetan Buddhist texts. From the 11th through 14th centuries, Tibetan monks worked tirelessly to transcribe the life and teachings of the Buddha onto paper. Highly skilled craftsmen then covered these pages with wooden boards that had been elaborately and painstakingly carved, gilded, and painted. The MacLean Collection, based in Chicago, has significant holdings of these extremely rare and ornately decorated objects. The first and most comprehensive of its kind, this lavishly produced, oversize volume features numerous illustrations of magnificent book covers from Tibet as well as several examples from other cultures. The volume tells the fascinating history of these objects, examines the materials from which they were carved, and…
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Munich Germany: Prestel, 2012. Hardcover. As New with no dust jacket. Illustrated by John Bigelow Taylor Photography. preface by Richad A. Pegg. 263 pages. shipping will be extra, please inquire. ; Hardcover in Slipcase; 14 1/4 x 11 1/4
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Chicago, Ill.: MacLean Collection ; Munich : Prestel, 2012. 263 pages : 100 color illustrations, map ; 29 x 37 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-259) and index. The first comprehensive study of about 100 wooden covers from the 11th through 14th centuries deriving from the Chicago collectors Barry and Mary Ann Maclean. Hard cover, internally bright and clean, all edges gilt. In yellow cloth slipcase. Both book and slipcase in Fine condition ( No additional shipping costs if by USPS Media Mail ). Hard Cover.
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