Professor Jerzy Szablowski [editor] - The Flemish Tapestries at Wawel Castle in Cracow: Treasures of King Sigismund Augustus Jagiello

Antwerp, Fonds Mercator, 1972. Cloth. A detailed work on the Jagiellonian tapestries of the Netherlands and Flanders, illustrated throughout. Illustrated with eighty-eight colour plates, sixteen of which are folding, and forty-three black and white plates, some of which are double page. Collated complete. A detailed study of the Jagiellonian tapestries woven in the Netherlands and Flanders, consisting of approximately three hundred and sixty-five pieces assembled to decorate the interiors of the Wawel Castel in Krakow for King Sigismund Augustus Jagiello. With reference to the origin and history of the collection, the stories of the tapestries, the Netherlands during the period in which they were woven, and much more. Edited by Professor Jerzy Szablowski, a Polish professor of art history. In the original quarter white paper covered binding with navy cloth boards. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light chipping to the extremities and the odd small closed tear sympathetically repaired with tape to the interior side. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.

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