Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Some light marking on cover. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> 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 century. The Wise Virgin is from a photo of statues on the Magdeburg Cathedral (1210-35) Hand to Hand Combat is from an Albrecht D?rer 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). (MP)