The Art of Ecstasy: Teresa, Bernini, and Crashaw
by Petersson, Robert T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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High Point, North Carolina, United States
Item Price
NZ$40.38NZ$32.30
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. First American Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is very lightly edge rubbed. DJ has light overall shelf wear including edge rubbing. ; Book presents the life of St. Teresa of Avila as well as the baroque recreations of it in the work of Bernini (the Cornaro Chapel in Rome) and Richard Crashaw ("Hymn to...Saint Teresa"). ; 9.5" (23.5 cm) tall; 183 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Cat's Cradle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3640049
- Title
- The Art of Ecstasy: Teresa, Bernini, and Crashaw
- Author
- Petersson, Robert T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- ART, LITERATURE, LITERARY, HISTORY, CRITICISM, BIOGRAPHY, TERESA, AVILA
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Art and Artists;
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Cat's Cradle Books
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High Point, North Carolina
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...