Author: Baron Joseph de Baye; T.B. Harbottle [trans.]
Title: The Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons
Description: London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this richly illustrated study of the industrial arts of the Anglo-Saxons, with a 'publisher's compliments' stamp to the verso of the front free endpaper. The first edition of this work from French archaeologist Joseph de Baye, translated from the French by T. B. Harbottle.With a stamp reading 'with the publisher's compliments' to the verso of the front free endpaper.Illustrated with seventeen remarkable steel plates and thirty one cuts in text throughout. Collated, complete. De Bayes's work offers an extensive study of the cultures of ancient English civilisations such as the Jutes, Saxons, Angles, Frisians, and Anglo-Saxons, and their arts, including jewelleries, vases, pottery, and graves. These works heavily influenced English arts in the future. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with mark to tail of front board near joint. Hinges strained, with front hinge a touch tender to tail and rear hinge a touch tender to head. Publisher's stamp to verso of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: anglo-saxons industrial arts J. de Baye archaeology industrial arts Not Stated


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