The Persian Carpet by A. Cecil Edwards (author)

Gerald Duckworth & Co.Ltd, 1967. Hardcover. Good. 1967. Reprinted. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Top textblock edge dyed red. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Boards are laminated. Visible wear marks to boards.

London: Duckworth, 1967. Hardcover. VG- Ex libris copy with libary sticker frm previous owner on inside front cover. Cover has sheld wear and some fading. LIght green cloth boards, 384 pp., many BW illus. A detailed history of carpets woven in Persia, now Iran. With many illustrations, mostly in BW.

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1960. 2nd printing. Attractive bookplate on front flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. Full red cloth binding, lightly shelf rubbed. xvi, 384pp. More than 400 photos and illustrations. Heavy book: NO international orders.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.

Gerald Duckworth & Co, London 1960 (first printed in 1953). 28.0 x 22.0cms, 384pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback but the cloth spine has The chapers are: carpets of the great period; the weaver's craft; the dyer; design; Tabriz, Heriz, the so-called Zenjan rugs; Hamadan & Malayer: Senneh, Bijar & Kurdish tribal rugs: Arak )Sultanabad & Seraband: the Turkomn rugs of the persian steppe; Meshed, Qainat & Turshiz (Kashmar); Baluchi tribal rugs: Kerman; Afshari & Yezd: tribal & village rugs of Fars; Isfahan & the Bakhtiari weaves: Joshaqan: Nain: Kashan & Qum; the future of the industry

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co, 1975. Later printing. Hardcover. near fine/near fine. Quarto. xvi, 384pp. Index. Double column text. Original colored pictorial dust jacket, lettered in white, over dark red cloth with embossed gilt ornament on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with 4 color plates, 9 regional maps, and 419 black & white photos. D.j. edges very slightly age toned, otherwise a fine copy. A survey of the carpet-weaving industry of Persia based on Edwards' fifty years' experience of the Persian carpet trade, thirteen of them in Persia itself, visiting at regular intervals every important weaving center in the country, including maps of the weaving areas and photographs of carpet centers and of manufacturing processes. Profusely illustrated with four color and 419 b/w reproductions of carpets, carpet designs, maps and b/w photographs of vicinities throughout. Standard work on Persian carpets of the late 19th to mid 20th century. Indexes at rear include chronology of… Read More

London: Gerald Duckworth & co, 1, 1960-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1960 Reprint HB Duckworth; good in good- jacket which is unclipped but foxed; inside book is very clean with no appreciable marks or foxing; previous owner signature on ffep

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co, 1967. Second edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Quarto. xvi, 384pp. Original gray dustjacket over red cloth with embossed black ornament on cover and gilt tooling around black label with gilt lettering on spine. Color frontispiece. A survey of the carpet-weaving industry of Persia based on Edwards' fifty years' experience of the Persian carpet trade, thirteen of them in Persia itself, visiting at regular intervals every important weaving center in the country, including maps of the weaving areas and photographs of carpet centers and of manufacturing processes. Profusely illustrated with four color and 419 b/w reproductions of carpets, carpet designs, maps and b/w photographs of vicinities throughout. Standard work on Persian carpets of the late 19th to mid 20th century. Indexes at rear include chronology of the Persian carpet, carpet exports, Persian measures and equivalents, places, tribes and persons, and a general index. DJ light wear along edges and rubbed, price… Read More

London: Gerald Duckworth, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. quarto. Type: Book pp XVI, 384. 3rd printing. Believed an unread book.

London: Duckworth, 1967. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Duckworth, 1967, 4to., 8 3/4" x 11 1/8", xvi+384pp., 419 illustrations, 9 maps, 4 color plates. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear along the top edge. . Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.

London: Duckworth, 1975. reprint. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket xvi + 384pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., indexes, A survey of the carpet-weaving industry of Persia based on Edwards' fifty years' experience of the Persian carpet trade, thirteen of them in Persia itself, visiting at regular intervals every important weaving centre in the country.Inc. maps of weaving areas & photographs of carpet centres & of manufacturing processes. Light foxing to end papers o/w nice copy