The Unicorn Tapestries
by Freeman, Margaret
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0870991477
- ISBN 13
- 9780870991479
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976. Cloth, 244 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Text by Margaret B. Freeman, Curator Emeritus, The Cloisters. Hunt of the unicorn. CONTENTS: Unicorn in ancient and medieval texts; Unicorn in medieval and early Renaissance art; Birds and the beasts of the tapestries; Hunt; Groves of trees, the flowery fields, and the gardens; The AE the FR and other problems relating to the original ownership of the tapestries; Making of the tapestries; Tapestries in the inventories, their treatment during the French revolution, and their history in later years. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200225
- Title
- The Unicorn Tapestries
- Author
- Freeman, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0870991477
- ISBN 13
- 9780870991479
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art; E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Media / Fabrics & Textiles; Genre & Subject / Fantasy & Illustration; European / 3. Medieval / Gothic;
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