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[No author].
Islamic Art in Egypt 969-1517.
Publisher: Ministry of Culture, United Arab Republic, [1969].
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printers: text pages by Dar al-Katib al-Arabi, Cairo; plates by Socialist govt. of Romania.
Size: 170x242x22mm.
page count: text 336; plates 57pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: looks battered, covers rather grubby, yellowed and creased; half-title page has been removed; some staining to the page edges; low-quality printing on the text pages, so that the paper is occasionally wrinkled and the text occasionally slightly fuzzy; some inked annotation on the back cover, but internally the text and plates appear to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 686g.

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Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Demiramis Hotel Cairo, 4-30 April 1969. Catalogues 299 items under the following headings: Gold, rock-crystal & ivory; Metalwork; Ceramics; Glass; Wood-carving; Painting.

Introduction: 7pp
Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 56 pages of monochrome plates, and a tipped-in colour frontispiece (please note, the text pages are not illustrated)
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 13pp
Index: no

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See also | Art history | Islamic studies | Exhibition guides |
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