Gothic : Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin --illustrated
by Davenport-Hines, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1857024982
- ISBN 13
- 9781857024982
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Fourth Estate, Limited, 1998. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Red cloth with gilt on spine, tight clean and square, headband, 438 pages, illustrated through-out in b & w, with 8 pages of colour plates, dust jacket is in NF Condition. "Richard Davenport-Hines traces the potent creative impulse of the gothic imagination from its modern origins in the seventeenth century to the present day. Gothic is about exaggeration; about stepping beyond limits and securities into the immoderate. Gothic is a book about painters, gardeners, architects, poets, novelists, photographers, film-makers, musicians and clothes designers." Contents include: Prologue / The Spectre Still Will Haunt Us / Stark Mad With Gardens / The Strength of Backward-Looking Thoughts / They Are Come to Tear Me to Pieces / The Dead Have Exhausted Their Power of Deceiving / A Race of Devils / Wild Passion for Wounding / This Man Belongs to Me I Want Him / Family Evil / We'd Rather Have the Iceberg than the Ship / Wild Mood Swings / Sources / index. Check out the scans. . First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Front Jacket Illustration: "A Nightmare" by Theador M. von Holst ( 1810 - 44 ). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002716
- Title
- Gothic : Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin --illustrated
- Author
- Davenport-Hines, Richard
- Illustrator
- Front Jacket Illustration: "A Nightmare" by Theador M. von Holst ( 1810 - 44 )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1857024982
- ISBN 13
- 9781857024982
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- ....Red cloth with gilt on spine, tight clean and square, headband, 438 pages, illustrated through-out in b & w, with 8 pages of colour plates, dust jacket is in NF Condition. "Richard Davenport-Hines traces the potent creative impulse of the got
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