Author: Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Illustrated Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Pictures and Other Works of Art of the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Mediaeval Periods
Author: Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom Collected at Manchester in 1857
Author: Manchester (England). Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Publisher
Author: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits
Author: British Museum. Department of Prints and DrawingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating
Author: Eugene T. SullivanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780912696119
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This unique and beautiful book was planned for those who love cake decorating and the opportunities it offers for creative self-expression. It explores decorating's long and honored past, then shows how this craft, mastered and perfected, can become as art form. The Wilton Way Volume 2, starts with an exploration of imaginative American techniques that open new horizons to decorators. The special love American decorators have for flowers is the subject of two chapters. The first is devoted to the fifty flowers of the fifty states-many never before achieved in icing. The second is given to the rose-best loved flower of every decorator in the world. 23 varieties and how to pipe them are shown. Wild roses, tea roses, "old" roses, even reproductions of roses that grew in Marie Antoinette's garden. Each is displayed on a beautiful cake.
John Aubrey, My Own Life
Author: Ruth ScurrPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370425
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
“A game-changer in the world of biography.” —Mary Beard, The Guardian Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in England—writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen—and wrote about them all, leaving behind a great gift to posterity: a compilation of biographical information titled Brief Lives, which in a strikingly modest and radical way invented the art of biography. Aubrey was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1626. The reign of Queen Elizabeth and, earlier, the dissolution of the monasteries were not too far distant in memory during his boyhood. He lived through England’s Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the brief rule of Oliver Cromwell and his son, and the restoration of Charles II. Experiencing these constitutional crises and regime changes, Aubrey was impassioned by the preservation of traces of Ancient Britain, of English monuments, manor houses, monasteries, abbeys, and churches. He was a natural philosopher, an antiquary, a book collector, and a chronicler of the world around him and of the lives of his friends, both men and women. His method of writing was characteristic of his manner: modest, self-deprecating, witty, and concerned above all with the collection of facts that would otherwise be lost to time. John Aubrey, My Own Life is an extraordinary book about the first modern biographer, which reimagines what biography can be. This intimate diary of Aubrey’s days is composed of his own words, collected, collated, and enlarged upon by Ruth Scurr in an act of meticulous scholarship and daring imagination. Scurr’s biography honors and echoes Aubrey’s own innovations in the art of biography. Rather than subject his life to a conventional narrative, Scurr has collected the evidence—the remnants of a life from manuscripts, letters, and books—and arranged it chronologically, modernizing words and spellings, and adding explanations when necessary, with sources provided in the extensive endnotes. Here are Aubrey’s intricate drawings of Stonehenge and the ancient Avebury stones; Aubrey on Charles I’s execution (“On this day, the King was executed. It was bitter cold, so he wore two heavy shirts, lest he should shiver and seem afraid”); and Aubrey on antiquity (“Matters of antiquity are like the light after sunset—clear at first—but by and by crepusculum—the twilight—comes—then total darkness”). From the darkness, Scurr has wrested a vibrant, intimate account of the life of an ingenious man.
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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