Folger library edition (6 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Etat : Fair. Illustrated. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Printed wrappers, oblong 4to, 22 x 28 cm, 64 pp, ills, erratum slip laid in. From the introduction: "Our ancestors, and some of us, have trained and treated horses; drawn, painted, and sculpted bosses; written lyrically about horses; enjoyed horses as companions, labor-saving devices, forms of entertainment and sport, sources of food, clothing, and shelter. The horse figures prominently in what Carl Jung called the "collective unconscious," and has for centuries played a central role in festivity and ritual. Early modern Europe was not singular in its attention to horses and horsemanship, but as in other aspects of the arts and sciences, it made major innovations in all the areas mentioned above. These can now be fully appreciated for the first time as a result of the scholarship of Elizabeth Niemyet; Louis B. Thalheimer Curator of Acquisitions, who assembled this exhibition out of the Folger's remarkable collection of equestrian literature from the 16th and 17th centuries." Very Good.…

Softcover/Paperback. Etat : Fine. First Edition. Exhibition catalogue. 'Power, Politics and Patronage 1688-1702' and 'A reference encyclopedia and exhibition catalogue'; five categories, forty-six illustrated essays: fourteen years examined; 400+pp. Pictorial wrappers. Errata slip. Two creases on rear cover, else fine. book.…

Cloth, 4to, 32 cm, 271 pp, ills, plates. Contents include: Introduction by Anthony Hobson; CATALOGUE OF THE BINDINGS: Preface; 1 15th-Century Bindings on Incunabula; 2 English and German Bindings, 16th and Early 17th Centuries; 3 Bindings from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I ; 4 Panel-Stamp and Roll Decoration, 16th and 17th Centuries; 5 Bindings from the Reign of King James I to the Commonwealth; 6 Bindings from the Restoration; 7 Vellum Bindings, 16th and 17th Centuries ; 8 Embroidered and Velvet Bindings, 16th and 17th Centuries; 9 Five Centuries of Edge Decoration; 10 Furniture, Clasps, and Bosses, 15th - 18th Centuries; 11 Bindings from the Reign of Queen Anne to King George III; 12 Continental Renaissance and Baroque Bindings; 13 Celebrating Shakespeare in the 20th century; 14 English 19th- and 20th-Century Bindings; 15 American and Continental 19th- and 20th-Century Bindings; 16 Two 19th-Century Forgeries; 17 Miniature Bindings, 17th - 20th Centuries. Appendix: Manuscript Fragments in the Bindings; Glossary of Terms; Bibliography; Indexes: A. Binders, Binderies, and Types of Bindings; B. Places of Binding; C. Former Owners. Fine in Fine dustwrapper.…