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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Blank cover page has some dust marking but otherwise book is clear and bright. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The famous medieval tapestries with hunting subjects which belonged to the Dukes of Devonshire and were at Hardwick Hall before being acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1957 are the subject of this monograph. Dating from before the middle of the fifteenth century their great size and the vigour of their design conceived entirely without perspective give them their unique interest. It has been claimed that they are to be associated with Henry VI’s marriage to Margaret of Anjou; this and their attribution to the looms of Arras are here discussed. Also their place in the chronology of tapestry design a section which is illustrated with eighteen of the finest secular pieces between 1400 and 1521. A chapter on the practices of medieval hunting and hawking adds colour to the scenes which are here described; the commentary on the notable costume worn by the lords and ladies who take the field is supplemented with a detailed appendix whilst another describes and illustrates eleven other hunting tapestries surviving from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. A full account of the restoration of the tapestries is given (MP)