Early Muslim Architecture: Umayyads, Early 'Abbasids & Tulunids

by K.A.C. Creswell

"Early Muslim Architecture. Volume Umayyads A.D. 622-750, with a contribution on the mosaics of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and of the Great Mosque in Damascus by Marguerite Guatier-van Berchem. SECOND EDITION (revised) IN TWO PARTS. Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1969. Volume I, Parts I & xxxix, 684pp. (2 parts paged continuously) plus 140 plates (some in color) and 690 line & half tone illustrations (some folding). EX-LIBRARY with minimal markings. Clean, bright text and illustrations. Dust wrappers are torn and tattered. All folding drawings fine. Both volumes are uniformly bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Extremely large and heavy books (each volume approximately 14" x 18" x 3").

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1979