Hardcover
2006 · Zurich
by Chu, Anne
Zurich: Scalo, 2006. Hardcover. VG- light corner and edge wear to book and dust jacket.. Eggplant cloth boards with white spine lettering. White and color-illustrated dust jacket, featuring black spine with white lettering. 132 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "These drawings are based on a four-volume set of books titled 'Modes and Manners', a work by Max von Boehn that uses artworks from the middle ages through the eighteenth century to illustrate European fashion and mannerisms of each respective centure. 'The Wise Virgin' is from a photo of statues on the Magdeburg Cathedral, (1210-35), 'Hand to Hand Combat' is from an Albrecht Dürer work (1515), 'A Garden Party' is taken from a painting by Anthonie Palamedesz, and 'The Squire's Door' from a painting by George Morland (1790)."-.
(Inventory #: 170234)