English Embroidery in the Metropolitan Museum 1580-1700: 'Twixt Art and Nature (Published in Association with the Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture) by Melinda; Morrall, Andrew Watt ISBN 13: 9780300129670

Light edge wear to dust jacket which is protected in a mylar cover. Pages crisp and clean.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. hardcover. fine/fine. Foreword by Susan Weber. Color illustrations throughout, many full-page. xix, 308 pages. Large 4to, black cloth with gilt lettering at the spine, pictorial d.w. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Bard Graduate Center, (2008). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown from December 11, 2008-April 12, 2009 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. With essays by Cristina Balloffet Carr, Ruth Geuter, Susan North, and Kathleen Staples.<br/> <br/>

New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture/ Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. Hardcover. VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn and scuffed or smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/VG (Light edgewear, scuffing, smudging.). Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; grey and glossy photo-illustrated DJ with white and yellow lettering; xix, 308 pp.; richly illustrated. "This book centers around the Metropolitan Museum of Art's preeminent collection of embroidered objects from England's late Tudor and Stuart eras. These seventeenth-century embroideries, over eighty works in all, include samplers, gloves, headgear, purses, raised-work panels, boxes and mirrors, portrait miniatures, lavishly embroidered Bibles, and a spectacular burse made to hold the Great Seal of England. In a series of essays, the book explores the important role of embroidery in the history of textiles and decorative arts and also offers new insight into the role of women in the… Read More

Bard Center, 2009-01-27. Hardcover. Like New. 12x9x1. Looks unread with just a touch of shelf wear oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

Museum; Yale University Press. New. 2008. Hardcover. 030012967X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- Text in English. 328 pp. With 305 ills. (291 col. ). 32 x 25 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- .