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Booklist•Alexander's Coins and Alexander's Image•Ancient Glass •Audubon in Edinburgh •Bagpipes •Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum •Drawings by Michelangelo and Raphael •A Geological Excursion Guide to the North-West Highlands of Scotland •Hidden Treasures of the Romanovs •The Lewis Chessmen •Heracles to Alexander the Great •Life Everlasting •Lucien Pissaro in England •A New Flowering • Northern Lights •An Orkney Boyhood •Reconstructions •Scotland's Land Girls •The Poetry of Truth • Robert Louis Stevenson •Showfolk •Stringed Instruments • Teaching with Objects •The Traction Engine in Scotland • Treasures from Tuscany •Wroughte in Gold and Silk |
Featured BooksThe Lewis Chessmen Unmasked David H. Caldwell, Mark A. Hall and Caroline M. Wilkinson 
ISBN: 978-1-905267-46-0
Pages: 80 Illustrations: 104, 34 color Now showing at the Cloisters in Manhattan! These 73 elaborately carved pieces may be the world's oldest complete chess set (or parts of several). Of walrus ivory and whales' teeth, the entire hoard was found 15 feet deep in the sand on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland by a local fisherman in the early 19th century. A source of delight to collectors, chess aficionados and to archeologists, they are currently exhibited at the Cloisters branch of the Metropolitan Museum. The "unmasked" in the book's title refers to new controversies about their origin and about who might have owned - and lost - them - and about the trade and state of society where they were crafted. Most of the experts agree, however, that that these Medieval pieces are of Scandinavian origin. Softcover, Lucien Pissarro in England The Eragny Press 1895-1914 By Victor Benjamin, Colin Harrison and Jon Whiteley 
ISBN: 978-1-854442-53-6
Pages: 160 Illustrations: 107 color This beautifully crafted publication mirrors the elegance of the book arts it presents. It is the story of Lucien Pissarro's innovative Eragny Press, born of Impressionism and influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement of England and the Pre-Raphaelites. The publisher is Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, a foremost source of French impressionism and the Pissarros. Lucien's treatment of the word and book as art are revealed in his illustrations and books for Coleridge, Flaubert and Laforgue and his own illustrations for ballads and poems. Included are works of William Morris' Kelmscott Press, Doves Press, and Vale Press, seldom printed portraits and pastoral scenes by Camille and letters between father and son. Softcover, |