I have here for sale a 2 volume set entitled HAND-WOVEN CARPETS ORIENTAL & EUROPEAN by A F Kendrick and C E C Tattersall. A brightly illustrated two volume Limited Edition study of the history and technical details of hand woven rugs. The two volume first edition of this brightly illustrated study of the history, manufacture and historical and cultural significance of both oriental and European hand woven carpets and rugs. Limited to 1000 numbered sets, of which this is set 918.With the first volume containing both illustrations and text, and the second volume dedicated to plates.With a colour folding frontispiece to volume I, along with ten further plates, and the second volume consisting of 205 plates and maps, nineteen of which are in colour. Vol I covers the text and is divided into Historical and Technical plus there are 10 diagrams of knotting and weaving in text and Vol II covers the 205 b/w plates (each with a caption on its tissue guard) and 2 b/w maps of Turkey and Persia.  First edition published by Benn Brothers, London in 1922.  

Both volumes bound in beige gold cloth hardboards with a gilt image of an oriental dog on the first volume and one of a tree on the second volume.  Both have gilt lettering to the spine.  Some bumping to head and tail.  Some minor spotting to the page edges but otherwise both volumes are in very good/fine condition.  Vol I - 198 pages, Vol II - xi plus 205 pages of plates.  29 x 23 cm.

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