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Large folio hardcover bound in red cloth and publisher’s bright pictorial dust-jacket. 532 pages. Appendix contains: Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography. Illustrated with over 1,000 reproductions, 600 of which are in full color. First edition. Originally presented as a doctoral dissertation, this groundbreaking work, after F.R. Martin in 1908 and Kurt Erdmann in 1955, is the third attempt to produce a comprehensive history of the oriental carpet. It is the authors contention that the origin of the oriental carpet is neither nomadic nor do its origins lie in central Asia, but instead derive from ancient Phrygian and other traditions which coalesced and survived in the uplands of present day Armenia. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tight copy with no writing or marking to text or illustrations. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. Media mail only, no International orders due to size.