Product Description
Published: 1948.
Not signed by author.
Association copy.
1948 Oxford first edition, being author's own copy with Joan Evans' personal bookplate later held by the notable critic Dyneley Hussey.
Author-owned copy later passed through a notable circle of British critics and scholars.
PROVENANCE: From the estate of Joan Evans; subsequently J.
M.
C.
Gamlin and Dyneley Hussey (dated 1954).
DESCRIPTION: Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt coat of arms to front and gilt stamped spine.
Two hundred and eighty illustrations, eleven plans and a large fold out map to rear Language: English Book Condition: Near Fine.
Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends.
Lightly sunned spine.
Tightly bound with intact endpapers.
Clean unmarked pages.
Black spot to verso of neatly folded out map.
Author's bookplate to front paste down and two other previous owners names to ffep J.
M.
C.
Gamlin and Dyneley Hussey dated 1954.
DJ Condition: No DJ.
Size: 27.
5 cm by 19 cm.
PROVENANCE BACKGROUND: Joan Evans was the author and primary subject authority.
Dyneley Hussey (1893-1972) was a distinguished British music and art critic for The Times and The Listener, and an Oxford-educated war poet.
His ownership signifies the books movement through the highest tiers of the British intellectual elite.
BOOK RESUME: Art in Mediaeval France is the definitive synthesis of French cultural history from the inception of the Capetian dynasty to the dawn of the Renaissance.
Evans meticulously links the 280 illustrated works and 11 plans to the social hierarchy of the time, from the monastic orders to the royal court.
This 1948 Oxford edition remains the documentary bedrock for understanding how French medieval society expressed its faith and power through visual form.
AUTHOR: Dame Joan Evans was a pre-eminent British historian of French medieval art and the first woman to serve as President of the Society of Antiquaries.
Born into an elite 'Intellectual Circle' of archaeologists, she had strong interests in European heritage during the upheaval of the mid-20th century.
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