1972 House Decoration in Nubia
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first edition of this work. Describing the character and evolution of house decoration in northern Sudanese Nubia, which largely disappeared under the flooding of the Aswan Dam in 1964 (from front fly-leaf).
This study summarises the result of the only survey made of the decorations in mud-relief or painted mud-walls which have gone lost.
Marian Wenzel was a British art and art historian. She took part in the two expeditions recording art in flood-threatened villages of Sudanese Nubian under the auspices of the Sudan Research Unit in 1964.
Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.
Illustrated with numerous black and white illustrations as well as twenty-one coloured plates. Collated, complete.
Condition
In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only, light handling marks to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.
Fine
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