Persian Miniature Painting Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of The Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House January-March, 1931. With Scarce Dust Jacket

Persian Miniature Painting Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of The Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House January-March, 1931. With Scarce Dust Jacket.

Author(s): Binyon, Laurence; J.V.S. Wilkinson and Basil Gray

Folio.(11" x 15") Oversized. 1933. Full russet colored polished cloth with gilt title and ornate arabesque device centered to front cover. Spine with gilt title to head with gilt authors below, gilt publisher to foot. Corners bumped. Mostly intact dust jacket with closed tears, chipped at edges with loss to head and foot. Feature 218 images of Persian Miniatures among 113 plates, many in color. Minor edgewear, corners bumped, bottom board edges slightly flattened, head and foot of spine slightly sun faded. Overall, a beautiful book in Near Fine condition with a Very Good "scarce" dust jacket.

From Wiki: Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1891. He worked for the British Museum from 1893 until his retirement in 1933. In 1904 he married the historian Cicely Margaret Powell, with whom he had three daughters, including the artist Nicolete Gray.

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