BOOKS ON ISLAMIC ART (SET OF 8)

• Arthur U Pope, A Survey of Persian Art: From Prehistoric Times to the Present, London and New York: Oxford University Press and American Institute for Iranian Art and Archaeology, 1938-39

(In 6 Volumes)
Volume 1: Text: Pre-Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods; xxviii, 895 pages; 1938
Volume 2: Text: Architecture, Ceramica Arts, Calligraphy and Epigraphy; xi, 897 - 1807 pages, with a folding plate; 1938
Volume 3: Text: [Islamic] The Art of the Book, Textiles, Carpets, Metalwork, Minor Arts; xi, 1809 - 2817 pages, with a folding map; 1939
Volume 4: Pre-Islamic: Prehistoric, Achaemenid, Parthian, Sasanian; Islamic: Architecture; xiv, with plates numbered from 1–510 (six coloured); 1939
Volume V: Architectural Ornament, Pottery, Painting; xii, with plates numbered from 511 - 980 (97 coloured); 1939
Volume VI: Textiles; xii, with plates numbered from 981 - 1482 (92 coloured); 1939

The first 3 volumes have 2817 pages in all. The remaining three volumes have 1482 full page coloured and black and white plates.

Original blue buckram cloth, gilt-lettered spines (each)
14.75 x 11 in (37.5 x 28 cm) (each)

The most celebrated and authoritative survey of Persian art, and an important resource for the art and architectural historian.

During the 1930s, the study of Iranian art and architecture was promoted intensively, and the widely held view that Iran has been the cultural centre of the Muslim world reached a climax. The pertinent events of the decade can hardly be understood without reference to Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969) a pioneering American Expert on Persian/ Iranian art, a professor of philosophy and aesthetics, archaeologist, political activist, museum director, and founder of an international scholarly organisation. and Phyllis Ackerman- Pope and Ackerman (whom Pope eventually married ) were able to persuade some of the greatest authorities of the day to contribute the various chapters, 69 scholars among the John Allan, Prof. Jurgi Baltrusaitis, Stanley Casson, Dr. G. Contenau, R.S. Cooke, Dr. Neilson C. Debevoise, Cecil H. Desch, Rene Doussaud, Dr. Richard Ettinghausen, C.J. Gadd, Rene Grousset, Prof. Ernst Herzfeld, Kurt Erdmann, Samuel Flury, Andre Godard, C.J. Lamm, Losif Orbeli, Ernst Kuhnel, Louis Massignon and Ugo Monneret de Villiard and others.Some contributors, such as Robert Buron (1905 41) and Eric Schroeder (1904 71), conducted researches in Iran in the 1930s. while others such as Ettinghausen did not make the journey. Not all of the contributors were full-time academics: Ralph Hariri (1892-1969), a merchant banker and art collector, wrote a chapter on metalwork' (Stephen Vernoit, ed., Discovering Islamic art. Scholars, collectors and collections, 1850-1950 pp. 40-41).

• Ernst J Grube, The World of Islam, Paul Hamlyn Limited, 1967

176 pages including black and white and colour illustrations throughout; pictorial dust jacket over black cloth
11.5 x 8.5 in (29 x 22 cm)

• J V S Wilkinson, The Shah-Namah of Firdausi: With 24 illustrations from a fifteenth -century manuscript formerly in the Imperial Library, Delhi and now in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society, , London: The India Society, 1931

xx + 92 pages including frontispiece and 6 colour plates, 18 black and white plates
30 x 23 cm

An outline of Firdausi's great epic with sketches of the principal stories concentrating mainly on the miniature paintings in the manuscript.

• Toby and Simon Digby, Michael Goedhuis, Paintings from Mughal India, London: Colnaghi, 1979

94 pages on thick art paper, tipped-in colour frontispiece, map, plates in colour and black and white, etc; colour printed stiff glossy card covers
11.5 x 8.25 in (29.5 x 21 cm)

• Stuart Cary Welch, A King's Book of King's , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972

199 pages profusely illustrated with colour, black and white plates; blue cloth boards with blind stamped title on the front board along with a slipcase
12.75 x 8.75 in (32.5 x 22.5 cm)

1st Edition of the illustrations to the most famous Persian epic, Firdausi's Shah-Nameh.

• R W Robinson, Persian Miniature Painting: From Collections in the British Isles, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1967

120 pages and 52 black and white plates
9.5 x 7.25 in (24.5 x 18.5 cm)

• Bamber Gascoigne, The Great Moghuls, New Delhi: B I Publications in association with London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1973

249 pages including 52 colour plates, 87 black and white illustration + genealogy, map, bibliography, index, with photographs by Christina Gascoigne; maroon cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket
10.25 x 7.75 in (26 x 20 cm)

Author and his wife spent 6 months in India and Pakistan travelling in the footsteps of the great Moghuls in preparation for this book.

• Stephen Howarth, The Koh-i-noor Diamond, Quartet Books, 1980

160 pages including 2 maps, some colour and black and white plates; crimson cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind- stamped lettering in frame to front with dust jacket
11.5 x 7.5 in (29.5 x 19.5 cm)

History of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond, found in an Indian mine over 300 years ago, changing hands from one conqueror to another until it became part of the British Crown Jewels.

(Set of 8)

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