The Thrones of Earth and Heaven.

Limited Edition. This number 31/110 signed and numbered by Beny. Born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Beny graduated as Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and travelled through Europe with the American School of Classical Studies. In 1956 at the invitation of Sir Herbert Read he staged his first major exhibition of photographs at the ICA. The publicity and acclaim which greeted this showing eventually led him to conceive and produce his first book of photographs, The Thrones of Earth and Heaven. With the commercial and critical success of the book, his vocation as a photographer and book designer were confirmed, and he subsequently developed a long and fruitful working relationship with Thames and Hudson. Images of the archaeology, architecture and landscape of the Mediterranean with original textual contributions from Stark, Cocteau et al.

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