History of ancient art (4 Volumes in 2 Books)
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1968. Hardcover. Both volumes: Brown cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and decoration. White dust jackets with red/plum lettering and small red/white illustration. Book I (Vols. I and II): xxviii + 381 pp. with bw frontis and 18 bw plates; Book II (Vols. III and IV): xx + 503 pp. with bw frontis and 16 bw plates. A bit heavy at 6 pounds and will require extra postage. Good+/Good+(Clean, bright and tight but for occasional faint pencil underlining in first book, up to page 33. Cloth at tail of first book beginning to fray. Dust jackets have general light shelf wear. Art school ex-lib. with usual marks. Item #157966
With Johann Gottfried Herder's essay "Winckelmann" included. Book I covers the origin of art and the causes of its difference among different nations; art amont the Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians; Art of the Etruscans and their neighbors; and art among the Greeks. Book 2 covers drapery; the mechanical part of Greek art; the rise and fall of Greek art; history of ancient art in its relation to the external circumstances of the times amont the Greeks; Greek art among the Romans; and Greek art under the Romans.
OCLC: 289767
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