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Studies in Fifteenth-century Printing by George D. Painter
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.14The work of George D. Painter on incunabula and early printing needs no introduction. Ranging from Gutenberg and Caxton to the first printing in France and Spain, the author has done much to... -
Horace by C. D. N. Costa
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the... -
Cathedrals and Sculpture by Willibald Sauerlander 9780907132882
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £115.41Professor Sauerlander is the leading authority on Gothic sculpture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The papers collected here have been published over the last 35 years. They represent... -
Studies in the History of Medieval Italian Painting: v. 1 by E.B. Garrison
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.16The four volumes of Edward Garrison's Studies, published between 1953 and 1962, represented a landmark in the study of medieval Italian painting. They made available for the first time photographs of... -
Studies in English Bible Illustration, Volume II by George L. Henderson
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.44George Henderson's work on English biblical illumination has thrown new light on the sources of some of the most celebrated Anglo-Saxon and Norman illustrated manuscripts and helped to place the... -
Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth by Gananath Obeyesekere 9780520232433
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.28With "Imagining Karma", Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of... -
Rethinking Malevich: Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich's Birth Alistair Douglas 9781904597483
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.00"Rethinking Malevich" is an English-language collection of sixteen innovative essays by leading international scholars that document new and intriguing aspects of Kazimir Malevich's art and biography... -
Studies on Claude and Poussin by Michael Kitson 9781899828524
Booksplease Price: £31.29Michael Kitson (1926-98) taught European art history at the Courtauld Institute for thirty years. He had a special interest in landscape, and in the relationship between 17th-century artists and... -
Studies in the History of Medieval Italian Painting: v. 4 by E.B. Garrison 9780907132660
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.36The four volumes of Edward Garrison's Studies, published between 1953 and 1962, represented a landmark in the study of medieval Italian painting. They made available for the first time photographs of... -
Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art by R. Pankhurst 9780907132516
Booksplease Price: £62.11This was the first International Conference specifically devoted to the study of Ethiopian art. The Proccedings of the Conference makes available papers devoted to the study of Ethiopian art, as... -
Studies in the History of Italian Art by Bruce Cole 9780907132929
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.00Professor Cole has written extensively over the last twenty years on Italian art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with monographs published on Giotto, Masaccio and Piero della Francesca,... -
Studies in Ottonian, Romanesque and Gothic Art by Rosalie Green
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.44Rosalie Green's interest in iconography provides a common thread in her work on the art of Europe during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three papers are concerned with one of the great medieval... -
Art, Culture and Nature: From Art History to World Art Studies by J Onians 9781904597513
Booksplease Price: £31.29For thirty years John Onians has been trying to expand and deepen the discipline of art history. His books, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age (1979), Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in... -
Studies in English Bible Illustration, Volume I by George L. Henderson
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.44George Henderson's work on English biblical illumination has thrown new light on the sources of some of the most celebrated Anglo-Saxon and Norman illustrated manuscripts and helped to place the... -
The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms by Peter Childs 9780415340175
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler's 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical... -
Studies in Medieval Art by C.M. Kauffmann
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.16The eleven studies reprinted here were published by Professor Kauffmann over a period of twenty years, and reflect his interest in Romanesque and Gothic art in England and Europe. They include a... -
Art, Culture and Nature: From Art History to World Art Studies by John Onians 9781899828951
Booksplease Price: £119.94For thirty years John Onians has been trying to expand and deepen the discipline of art history. His books, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age (1979), Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in... -
Commentaries on Roman Art: Selected Studies by Richard Brilliant 9780907132745
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.94Professor Brilliant's work on Roman art over the last twenty-five years has changed many of the ways in which we look at the subject. The papers reprinted here document the development of the... -
The Morning Post, 1772-1937: Portrait of a Newspaper by Wilfrid Hindle 9781032521596
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.85First published in 1937, The Morning Post, 1772-1937, is a history of the conservative British newspaper, The Morning Post, from its inception in 1772 to its merger with the Daily Telegraph in 1937... -
Studies in Byzantine Manuscript Illumination and Iconography by Ioannis Spatharakis 9780907132868
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.44The work of Ioannis Spatharakis on Byzantine manuscript painting has resulted in the standard corpus of dated illuminated Greek manuscripts, and an important survey of the history of the portrait in... -
Studies in Byzantine Painting by V.N. Lazarev 9780907132783
Booksplease Price: £86.67Viktor Nikitich Lazarev was one of the founders of the Russian school of art history, and a major figure in the study of Byzantine and early Russian art. Immensely productive, he combined teaching,... -
How Poems Think by Reginald Gibbons
Booksplease Price: £24.80To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular... -
Studies in Early Tuscan Painting by Henk van Os 9780907132455
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.00Professor van Os has spent twenty years working on Tuscan painting, and his contributions to the study of the Sienese school are of great importance. This volume brings together for the first time... -
Johnson's Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment by Philip Smallwood
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £115.67Samuel Johnson remains one of the most frequently discussed and cited of the eighteenth-century critics; but historians of criticism have invariably interpreted his work within conventions that have... -
Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy by Anne Pippin Burnett 9780520210967
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.69Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are... -
Studies in Chinese Archaeology and Art by William Watson 9780907132998
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.44For more than forty years William Watson has occupied a unique place in the study and teaching of Chinese art in Great Britain. Professor Watson's publications cover a wide field, his command of... -
Printing and the Book Trade in the West Indies Roderick Cave 9780907132356
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.44The division of the Caribbean islands between the major European powers resulted in the growth of a number of regional presses, providing the colonists with the reading matter they would have... -
Studies in Islamic Painting by Ernst J. Grube 9780907132622
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £89.95Ernst Grube's research on Islamic painting over more than three decades has dealt with materials, issues and problems ranging from 10th-century Egypt through Ottoman Turkey to 19th-century Persia... -
Studies in Chinese Archaeology and Art: v.1 by William Watson 9780907132943
Booksplease Price: £61.48For more than forty years William Watson has occupied a unique place in the study and teaching of Chinese art in Great Britain. Professor Watson's publications cover a wide field, his command of... -
Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity Esther Eidinow 9781032474861
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This volume offers new insights into ancient figurations of temporality by focusing on the relationship between gender and time across a range of genres.Each chapter in this collection places gender... -
How Poems Think by Reginald Gibbons 9780226277950
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular... -
Studies in Roman and Early Christian Architecture by J.B.Ward- Perkins 9780907132769
Booksplease Price: £86.75The work of J. B. Ward-Perkins on Roman architecture spanned fifty years, and his numerous published papers covered almost every aspect of the subject. This selection of sixteen studies focuses... -
A History of the Levant Company Alfred C. Wood 9781138976191
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94First Published in 1964. The main purpose of this study is to look at the many sides of the Levant Company from its foundation, the early years of 1583 to 1605 and to its decline in the 1830s. The... -
Perseus by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The son of Zeus, Perseus belongs in the first rank of Greek heroes. Indeed to some he was a greater hero even than Heracles. With the help of Hermes and Athena he slew the Gorgon Medusa, conquered a... -
Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt 9780887388880
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.53This volume is the best-known and most widely discussed work of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. It is... -
Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation by Rebecca Futo Kennedy 9781603849944
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.69By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of... -
Christopher Marlowe: The Plays and Their Sources by Vivien Thomas 9780415513234
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67This major work brings together, for the first time in a single volume, all the recognized sources of Marlowe's dramatic work. Many of the forty-two texts presented here are of outstanding interest... -
Visible Spirit: The Art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Volume II by Irving Lavin 9781904597551
Booksplease Price: £31.29As early as the 1950s, Professor Irving Lavin was recognized as a major voice in American art history. His sustained production of seminal scholarly contributions have left their mark on an... -
Studies in Byzantine, Islamic and Near Eastern Silk Weaving by Anna Muthesius 9781904597605
Booksplease Price: £41.79This volume complements Anna Muthesius' two earlier ground-breaking volumes in the field of silk as material culture: Studies in Byzantine and Islamic Silk Weaving and Studies in Silk in Byzantium... -
The Beginnings of European Theorizing: Reflexivity in the Archaic Age: Logological Investigations: Volume Two by Barry Sandywell
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49In Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason Barry Sandywell outlined and defended a central place for reflexivity in the human sciences. In this second equally outstanding Volume of Logological...