< Back

Wells-Cole, Anthony.
Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England:
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven;
Date of Publication: 1997
Stock Code: 12250
FIRST EDITION. Square quarto, pp., xii, 344. Colour photographic frontispiece with further colour and monochrome illustrations throughout. Publisher’s burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket; burgundy endpapers. A clean & bright copy with no annotations or inscriptions. Dust-jacket shows light shelf wear with creasing mainly to spine tips. Overall a fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. Comprehensive exploration of the effect that imported, mass-produced prints had on Elizabethan and Jacobean art, analysing the prints by country, with their effect on a variety of artistic trades, such as joinery, embroidery and plasterwork, explored. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £75.00