Persian Miniatures in the Fogg Museum of Art [INSCRIBED]
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. "I shall always remember Mrs. Brantley who made me feel that the Fogg's first rug show would go up all right, when reason suggested that it wouldn't. Eric Schroeder, March 11, 1049" on front free endpaper. Quarto. x (iii), 166pp., xxx plates. Original rose cloth with gilt lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. Decorative initials. "Covering the whole period from the fourteenth to the end of the seventeenth century, Mr. Schroeder has here provided a general account of Persian book painting at its height. The story is developed in connection with the examples at the Fogg Museum. The introduction gives the reader an historical and critical vantage-point, where he can use modern concepts of pictorial expression along with some insight derived from Oriental sources. The volume is a supplement to existing histories of Persian paintings; it is not merely a collection of fine miniatures and reasonable attributions, but a series of essays to place each picture in the life and thought of his time." (Publisher). Illustrated with thirty plates of with pertinent examples of Persian book painting and one chart demonstrating the successions and influences in Persian painting. Laid b/w illustrated card for the exhibition: The Classical Style in Islamic Painting. Dustjacket with wear along edges, chips and closed tears with tape reinforcements on inside; price clipped. Binding lightly rubbed, block lightly age-toned, not affecting images. Dustjacket in overall good-, binding and interior in good condition. fair+ to g. Item #47621
Price: $150.00