Imperial Byzantine Portraits: A Verbal and Graphic Gallery
New Rochelle, New York: Caratzas Brothers, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 206pp. Red cloth with yellow lettering and decoration. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Name and address of previous owner in ink to inside of front board. "....a verbal and graphic gallery of the Byzantine emperors. The book is a survey, designed to deepen the reader's acquaintance with the eighty-eight reigning sovereigns of Byzantium through a fusion of political history and iconography. Above all, my objective in this work is to present the emperors as individual human beings, not simply as figures in pictures nor as the faceless, characterless names and numbers they sometimes become in political narratives." Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs and paintings. Binding in very good, interior in near fine condition. vg. Item #15274
ISBN: 0892410841
Price: $175.00