1968 CHURCH OF HAGHIA SOPHIA AT TREBIZOND ED RICE 12 COL & 80 B/W PLTS TURKEY ^
Item History & Price
I have here for sale a book entitled THE CHURCH OF HAGHIA SOPHIA AT TREBIZOND edited by DAVID TALBOT RICE published by Edinburgh University Press for the Russell Trust, Edinburgh, in 1968. First edition. Apart from the fine and unusual architecture of the church itself, the superb wall-paintings are not only works of high artistic merit but also throw light on the flowering and dissemination of the Metropolitan style. There is a tipped-in full-page colour illustration... on the frontispiece and a further 12 colour plates, as well as a fold-out facsimile of a mosaic floor in a pocket at the end of the book. There are also 80 b/w plates and 136 figures in the text.Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine protected by a price unclipped colour illustrated dust jacket, which has a minor tear along the bottom edge. Decorated endpapers. All pages are tight and clean and the book is in very good condition. 275 pages plus 80 plates. 31 cm x 21.5 cm.Postage will be by Air Mail outside the UK. If you buy more than one item then the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday. We have over 1000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.
