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The lady and the unicorn
by Chevalier, Tracy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Faint scratches to DJ, else fine in near fine DJ.
- ISBN 10
- 0525947671
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947677
- Seller
-
Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dutton, 2004. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Faint scratches to DJ, else fine in near fine DJ.. Octavo in blue DJ; 250 p ; 22 cm. Signed by author. || Interweaves historical fact with fiction to explore the mystery behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the fifteenth century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris. || France -- History -- 15th century -- Fiction.
Synopsis
A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn , Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79929
- Title
- The lady and the unicorn
- Author
- Chevalier, Tracy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Faint scratches to DJ, else fine in near fine DJ.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing (full number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0525947671
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947677
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novels, Fiction, Short Stories; France, French;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bibliope by Calvello Books
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Oakland, California
About Bibliope by Calvello Books
Over thirty-five years experience in the used, out-of-print and rare book trades. Selling online since 1997. WWW.BIBLIOPE.COM (formerly Calvello Books)
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