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The Thrones of Earth and Heaven.

Photographs and Notes on the Plates … Foreword by Herbert Read. Texts by Freya Stark, Jean Cocteau, Bernard Berenson, Rose Macaulay and Stephen Spender.

Author:
BENY, Roloff.
Title:
The Thrones of Earth and Heaven.
Published:
1958
Publisher:
London, Thames and Hudson,
Stock Code:
39746
Price:
£175.00

Limited Edition, no. 33/110 signed and numbered by Beny. The first book of the celebrated Canadian photographer, featuring images of the archaeology, architecture and landscape of the Mediterranean, with original textual contributions from Stark, Cocteau et al. This copy with loosely inserted invitation to the exhibition, prospectus, and invoice to the British avant-garde film-maker and long-time Capri resident Kenneth Macpherson: "Dear Kenneth, Many, many thanks".

Folio. Quarter straight-grain black leather on red silk-covered boards, gilt Medusa head to the upper board, in original black card slipcase with laminated repeat of the Medusa in red. Profusely illustrated from photographs, stylised maps to the text. Slipcase a little rubbed else very good.

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