Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art Tapa dura - 1978

Clarendon Press, 1977. Hard cover. Good/Good. jacket spine is sunned, but readability is not impacted. Jacket is rubbed. Jacket edges are worn. Inside jacket edges are tanned. Spine is cracked but secure. Spine edges are bumped. Bottom cover edges are shelf worn. Cover corners are bumped. Text block and inside edges are tanned, but legibility is not affected. Front free end paper has previous owner's signature as well as stamp from publisher. Inside is unmarked.

Oxford University Press, USA, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Oxford,, 1977. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Contains some underlining in pencil, but this is minimal. Otherwise very good secondhand copy. . 8vo. pp xix, 351. Original publisher's navy cloth with lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0198173369

Oxford University Press. Used - Very Good. 1978. Cloth, dj. 8vo. xix & 351 pp. Illustrated. Some shelf wear, scuffing, and chipping to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Pages are clean and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Asian Art.)

Oxford: White Lotus Press, 1977. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. Much Maligned Monsters

Oxford: The Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1977. Original First Edition, 1977. Hardcover. NF/VG- (Clean, crisp, tight, bright. Virtually no cover wear. Dust wrapper has shelf rubbing and is price-clipped at bottom. Original US price sticker (National Gallery of Art) on back.). Navy blue cloth/boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Black and color-illus. dj with orange/white lettering; yellow lettering on spine. xix + 351 pp. with bw frontis, 1 bw map, and 122 additional bw plates. Much Maligned Monsters, one of the first comprehensive work dealing with the Western response to Indian art, is considered a classic on the subject. In this fascinating study interspersed with more than 120 visuals, eminent historian Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the Exotic East to the more sophisticated but still incomplete appreciations of the early-twentieth century.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.