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Maria Kazanaki-Lappa; trans. David Hardy.
After Byzantium: The Survival of Byzantine Sacred Art.
Publisher: The Private Bank and Trust Company Ltd., 1996
ISBN 9608577608.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Pergamos SA.
Size: 267x268x32mm.
Page count: 320pp (unpaginated).
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy shows some evidence of long-term storage, some scuffs and scratches on its dustjacket, and a row of indentations across its back panel, some wear to its edges and corners; pages a bit yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 2230g.

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Originally published to accompany an exhibition held in London, April 1996. Catalogues 98 items, all illustrated, many with details.
Appendix: Nikos Hatzikyriakos Ghikas, "Observations on the evolution of painting".

Illustrations: throughout, colour
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: Fotis Kontoglou, “Sacred art in the eastern Orthodox Church”; preface by Steven Runciman.
Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no, but references given with individual catalogue entries if appropriate
Index: no

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