Ethics of Contemporary Collecting addresses pressing and pertinent issues around ethical contemporary collecting, reflecting on how practices are evolving or in flux....Lasīt vairāk
Anglo-Saxon Coins (1961) is an illustrated analysis of the coinage of the Anglo-Saxon era. It examines the coins of the end of Roman Britain and those of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, as well as those of the Vikings, Ireland and Wales....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and taste makers during the years leading to, during and following World War II....Lasīt vairāk
This volume highlights the trade in slaves during the ninth and tenth centuries as driving exchanges on a trans-continental scale. A combination of general surveys and regional case-studies sets Gotland and the early medieval slave trade in a firmer...Lasīt vairāk
Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of Augustus wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in other visual media and reveals the detailed visual language that was developed for the promotion of Livia as the pre...Lasīt vairāk
Originally written in 1905, this volume examines the coins of Japan, especially appealing because of a subtle and impersonal charm which pervades their inscriptions and the sentiments which they set forth. They are written in characters which are a...Lasīt vairāk
This new edition of Architectural Tiles: Conservation and Restoration continues to inform and educate in methodology and techniques pertaining to this broad subject. The new overview of common problems will be helpful in domestic and ecclesiastical...Lasīt vairāk
The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century....Lasīt vairāk
The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century....Lasīt vairāk
This collection of essays models and refines the study of these complicated volumes. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, it offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics and religion in the early modern period, and promis...Lasīt vairāk
Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a perio...Lasīt vairāk
Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts but first and foremost he was a bibliographer and a book historian. The present collection contains fifteen of his book-historical articles, two reviews and one published version of a lectur...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jan-2010, Izdevniecība: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444317855)
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides a concise introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts....Lasīt vairāk
This study provides an extensive analysis of the energy and environmental policies needed to create cities that sustain themselves. It uses case studies from 12 European cities to reflect the different conditions that have to be met....Lasīt vairāk
