About this title: Unmatched in its breadth of coverage, with over 1,000 stunning illustrations, this important new book tells the story of British design and decorative arts over four centuries. From the time of Henry VII through the reign of Queen Victoria, British designers soared in influence, creating a rich diversity of furniture, textiles, silver, metalwork, and porcelains as well as painting, sculpture, prints, and drawings.
Divided into sections on the Tudor and Stuart, Georgian, and Victorian periods -- and treating style, taste, fashion, and innovation in each -- this book accompanies the opening ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Date Published: 2001-11-01
ISBN-13:9780810965867ISBN:0810965860
Description: Mint in Mint jacket. Mint in publisher's cloth in like dust jacket. Shrink wrapped. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, NY
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780810965867ISBN:0810965860
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Quarto. 488 pp; profusely illustrated in color & b/w; bibliographies; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: V& A Publications, London, England
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780810965867ISBN:0810965860
Description: New in new dust jacket. 488 p. Color illustrations. Heavy Book (6 1/2 lbs.). Requires extra postage. Published to coincide with the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum's new British Galleries 1500-1900. read more
Edition: First American edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum / Abrams, [New York]
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780810965867ISBN:0810965860
Description: Fine condition in a fine dust jacket. (Victoria and Albert Museum Studies) With nearly 1, 000 color illustrations. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. read more
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