The Persian Carpet
by Edwards, A. Cecil
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- near fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 071560256X
- ISBN 13
- 9780715602560
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About This Item
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 the Persian carpet, carpet exports, Persian measures and equivalents, places, tribes and persons, and a general index.
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.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52772
- Title
- The Persian Carpet
- Author
- Edwards, A. Cecil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- ISBN 10
- 071560256X
- ISBN 13
- 9780715602560
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Persian textiles, weavings, clothes, First edition, Illustrated, Reference, carpet industry, Persian carpets
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