Description

Hardcover in publisher’s original non clipped dust-jacket. French edition, text in French. 402 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, nine full page color photographs, drawings and four maps. First edition. Edited at the Sainte-Marie abbey of la pierre-qui-vire. This is volume 29 in the “nuit des temps” art series by Zodiaque, containing chapters on church architecture, mural paintings, sculpture, gold-smithing and iron-working. Previous owner’s small label inside front cover and brief gift inscription in pen on front free end-paper, from his wife, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket covered in handsomely crafted home-made acetate cover, with small number written on base of spine. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. Text in French.