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Mythical Beasts
Steve Dobell
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Description for Mythical Beasts
Hardcover. Contains songs, verses and prose about unicorns, dragons, centaurs, flying horses and other fabulous creatures of myth and legend. This title covers fine art paintings that include works by Reubens, Botticelli, Castagno, Giovanni-Battista, Morris, Caravaggio, Durer, Burne-Jones, Moreau, Dore and Bouttats. Editor(s): Dobell, Steve. Num Pages: 64 pages, over 60 photographs. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
This is a lavishly-illustrated and embellished collection, which contains songs, verses and prose about unicorns, dragons, centaurs, flying horses and other fabulous creatures of myth and legend. It contains extracts from some of literature's greatest writers, academics and historians, including Virgil, Ovid, Herodotus, Sir Thomas Browne, H.A. Guerber, Edward Topsell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley and William Morris. It covers fine art paintings that include works by Reubens, Botticelli, Castagno, Giovanni-Battista, Morris, Caravaggio, Durer, Burne-Jones, Moreau, Dore and Bouttats. Monsters, grotesques, fabulous birds, exotic hybrids - the beasts of myth and legend are curious creations of imagination, superstition and ... Read more
This is a lavishly-illustrated and embellished collection, which contains songs, verses and prose about unicorns, dragons, centaurs, flying horses and other fabulous creatures of myth and legend. It contains extracts from some of literature's greatest writers, academics and historians, including Virgil, Ovid, Herodotus, Sir Thomas Browne, H.A. Guerber, Edward Topsell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley and William Morris. It covers fine art paintings that include works by Reubens, Botticelli, Castagno, Giovanni-Battista, Morris, Caravaggio, Durer, Burne-Jones, Moreau, Dore and Bouttats. Monsters, grotesques, fabulous birds, exotic hybrids - the beasts of myth and legend are curious creations of imagination, superstition and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Lorenz Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754829065
SKU
V9780754829065
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Steve Dobell
Steve Dobell, the compiler of this book, is an experienced editor and writer of illustrated non-fiction. For this anthology he has drawn on his love of history and literature.
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