Eisen; Gustavus ; Antioch; The Great Chalice of Antioch Volumes 1 & 2
NEW YORK, KOUCHAKJI FRERES, 1923 , HARD BACK
Overall Condition is: GOOD LEATHER SPINES
EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED. Original black moroccan leather over gilt-stamped olive cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to leather spines. Top edge gilt. Decorative headpieces and initials.This set is unumbered limited edition of 1000, and was printed on uncut cotton rag paper, by Crane and Co. Foreword by famed art historian Josef Strzygowski. The book was designed and decorated by illustrator and graphic artist Edward B. Edwards. The publication is a comprehensive academic and photographic study of the Chalice of Antioch, including 60 highly detailed plates of b/w photogravure and copper plate engravings.The Chalice was said to be one of the contenders to be the authentic Holy Chalice of Christ, when it was discovered in Antioch, in 1910. Study of the object in the intervening years, has since ruled out this possibility. It is however, still considered one of the more acclaimed and earliest surviving Christian relics, dating from the early 5th century. Vol.1 has a detailed scholarly analysis of the Chalice from comparative historical, artistic, and technical perspectives, commenting on all aspects of the object. The end of the first volume contains 2 plates of diagrams, one is a dynamic analysis of the object's structure and the second is a visual study of the occulted spirals present in the faces on the Chalice. Vol.2 contains 60 plates of illustrations (some as large as 13.5 x 8.5 ), 48 of which are reproduced in photogravure after photographs, by the author & Fahim Kouchakji. The other 12 are copper plate engravings by Margaret West Kinney (the wife of Troy Kinney), who has rendered the original three-dimensional figures of Jesus and the Apostles on the Chalice, into two-dimensional portrait images. The plates dissect nearly every minute physical detail of the piece. Each plate has a tissue guard with printed text in black, identifying the contents.Bindings slight rubbing to the covers. Light age toning some pages. . Bindings are in very good-, interior in very good+ condition. Each Volume has around 100 pages. EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED. Volumes together weigh around 23 pounds shipped from ATLANTIC CITY N.J..
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