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Dalton, O. M.
Byzantine Art and Archaeology.
Publisher: at the Clarendon Press, Oxford;
Date of Publication: 1911
Stock Code: 15618
First edition. Octavo, pp., xix, [1], 725, [1], plus errata slip, and 456 illustrations within text. Publisher’s wine-coloured buckram over crimson goatskin back; titled in gilt to spine; gilt vignette of a Byzantine coin to upper board; top edge gilt; white end-papers. Small bookseller’s ticket of E. S. Fowler of Eastbourne to front paste-down. Corners bumped and rubbed; binding otherwise square, the gilt bright. First gathering cracked; foxing to end-papers; otherwise internally clean and sound. A very good copy. A scholarly study of Byzantine material culture with chapters on painting, sculpture, enamel, jewellery, textiles, numismatics, pottery, and iconography. £85.00