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David Talbot Rice, director.
Masterpieces of Byzantine Art: Sponsored by The Edinburgh Festival Society in association with the Royal Scottish Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum; second edition.
Publisher: Edinburgh U.P. for the Edinburgh Festival Society, September 1958 (1st edn. was August 1958).
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Robert Cunningham & Sons, Alva.
Size: 139x214x6mm.
Page count: text 96pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the covers on this copy are a rather rumpled, some evidence of handling internally; some wear at the edges and corners, a bit of creasing on the spine; plate pages a bit yellowed with age; previous owner’s name in ink on reverse of the frontispiece, and at least 29 text pages have some pencilled marks or annotations in the margins, and in one case a small sketch of one of the exhibits.

This item £3.50
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 167g.

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Contents: this edition of the catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition when it moved to London, October 1st to November 9th, 1958. Catalogues 254 items altogether; a separate section devoted to coins comprises items 248-254, each of which includes several items.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: a frontispiece and 15 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: half-page
Index: no

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