The Art Deco Book in France Tapa dura - 2005

Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2005. hardcover. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 159 pages. Edited by Tanselle, G. Thomas. Printed by Heritage Letterpress of Charlotte, North Carolina. When Gordon Ray delivered the Lyell Lectures at Oxford in 1985, he chose as his subject the Art Deco book illustrations and bindings produced in France in the 1920s. This topic was not a surprising choice, for he had previously written magisterial annotated catalogues, largely based on his own collection, of British illustrated books from 1790 to 1914 and of French illustrated books from 1700 to 1914. His Lyell Lectures formed a natural continuation of the latter and gave him the opportunity to express his views on still another area in which, through his collecting and research, he had become expert. He accompanied his lectures with 183 slides, the majority of them in color, and those illustrations are in fact the reason that the lectures have not been published until now: the… Leer más

Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 144pp+ index. Very good hardback bound in publisher's gray cloth and issued without a jacket.

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