Bennett, Anna G. — Five Centuries of Tapestry

San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, by Charles E. Tutt, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California / Rutland, Vermont. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a fine museum exhibit catalog, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated wraps. Sumptuously illustrated, accessible survey of the world of tapestries, a history of the collection, chapters about design and weaving techniques, color and dyes, Late Medieval tapestries, Sixteenth-Century tapestries, seventeenth and eighteenth-century tapestries, and then a list of abbreviated references, notes and bibliography. v [1], 253 pp. Black-and-white, duotone and full color photography galore.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine