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Title: THE LOOK OF LOVE
ROMANTIC ILLUSTRATION THROUGH THE AGES
By: British Library (Creator)
Format: Paperback

List price: £10.00


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ISBN 10: 071235719X
ISBN 13: 9780712357197
Publisher: THE BRITISH LIBRARY PUBLISHING DIVISION
Pub. date: 1 February, 2014
Pages: 144
Description: This new book is a celebration of love through the ages, gathering together more than 100 romantic illustrations from the flirtatious to the kitsch, the charming to the ironic.
Synopsis: This new book is a celebration of love through the ages, gathering together more than 100 romantic illustrations from the flirtatious to the kitsch, the charming to the ironic. The vintage imagery is drawn from a huge range of sources - fashion magazines, medieval illuminated manuscripts, book covers, paintings and cartoons - and it ranges from exquisite depictions of courtly love in the Middle Ages to the pulp novels of the twentieth century; from elves in fairy-land to a honeymoon in space. Great lovers from literature - Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester, Vishnu and Lakshmi - are lavishly represented alongside a host of first kisses, assignations in the garden, moonlight serenades, and walks down the aisle.
Illustrations: 130 colour
Publication: UK
Imprint: The British Library Publishing Division
Returns: Returnable
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