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Decorative Arts/Textiles/Design History

Lucy Creagh, Helen Kåberg, and Barbara Miller Lane, eds.
Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008. 352 pp.; 260 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780870707223)
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November 25, 2009
Lisa Monnas
Merchants, Princes and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings, 1300–1550
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 352 pp.; 150 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300111170)
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October 22, 2009
Philip Hewat-Jaboor and David Watkin, eds.
Thomas Hope: Regency Designer
Exh. cat. New York and New Haven: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture and Yale University Press, 2008. 520 pp.; 420 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780300124163)

Exhibition schedule: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, March 21–July 21, 2008; Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, July 17–November 16, 2008

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August 18, 2009
Annamaria Giusti and Wolfram Koeppe, eds.
Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe
Exh. cat. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2008. 428 pp.; 272 color ills.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300136722)

Exhibition schedule: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July 1–September 21, 2008

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October 29, 2008
Sarah D. Coffin, Gail S. Davidson, Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, and Ellen Lupton
Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730–2008
Exh. cat. New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Assouline, 2008. 272 pp.; 380+ color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780910503914)

Exhibition schedule: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, March 7–July 6, 2008

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August 6, 2008
Deborah Rothschild, ed.
Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Exh. cat. Williamstown and Berkeley: Williams College Museum of Art in association with University of California Press, 2007. 244 pp.; 70 color ills.; 145 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780520252400)

Exhibition schedule: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, July 8–November 11, 2007; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, February 26–May 4, 2008; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, June 8–September 15, 2008

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May 14, 2008
Thomas P. Campbell, ed.
Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor
Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 592 pp.; 175 color ills.; 169 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300124071)

Exhibition schedule: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 16, 2007–January 6, 2008; Palacio Real, Madrid, March 6–June 1, 2008

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February 27, 2008
Ashley Callahan, ed.
Georgia Inside and Out: Architecture, Landscape, and Decorative Arts. Proceedings from the Second Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts
Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2004. 176 pp.; 29 color ills.; 83 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (0915977567)
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January 29, 2008
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, ed.
Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 246 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816646883)
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John V. Maciuika
Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German State, 1890–1920
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 386 pp.; 129 b/w ills. Cloth $91.00 (9780521790048)
January 23, 2008
Marina Vidas
The Christina Psalter: A Study of the Images and Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006. 154 pp.; 20 color ills.; 21 b/w ills. Cloth €34.00 (8763501279)
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July 26, 2007
Elena Phipps, Johanna Hecht, and Cristina Esteras Martin, eds.
The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530–1830
Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2004. 412 pp.; 250 color ills.; 105 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (030010491X)
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January 11, 2007
Alessandra Russo
El realismo circular: Tierras, espacios y paisajes de la cartografía novohispana, siglos XVI y XVII
México City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2004. 250 pp.; 351 ills. Paper $36.00 (9703209831)
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December 20, 2006
George Saliba and Linda Komaroff
The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance
Ed. Catherine Hess. Getty Trust Publications, 2003. 184 pp.; 61 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (089236758X)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: July 18, 2004–February 6, 2005; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth: April 3, 2005–September 4, 2005; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo: October 22, 2005–December 11, 2005; Millennium Galleries, Sheffield: January 14, 2006–April 16, 2006

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November 15, 2006
Wayne Craven
Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities
New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 288 pp.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0231133448)
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November 7, 2006
Meyer Shapiro
The Language of Forms: Lectures on Insular Manuscript Art
Intro. Jane E. Rosenthal. New York: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2004. 212 pp.; 43 color ills.; 134 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (0875981402)
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October 10, 2006
Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder, eds.
Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 288 pp.; 27 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (0312293771)
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September 12, 2006
Jeannette Shambaugh Elliott and David Shambaugh
The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 192 pp.; 45 b/w ills. Cloth (0295985224)
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September 11, 2006
David J. Roxburgh
The Persian Album,1400–1600: From Dispersal to Collection
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 384 pp.; 51 color ills.; 125 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300103255)
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June 19, 2006
Yevgenia Petrova, ed.
Mir Iskusstva: Russia’s Age of Elegance
St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, State Russian Museum, 2004. 152 pp.; 155 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth (0967845130)

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, June 4–September 14, 2005; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, October 8–December 31, 2005; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, February 25–June 11, 2006

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June 8, 2006
Paola Antonelli
Safe: Design Takes On Risk
Museum of Modern Art, 2004. 216 pp.; 325 color ills. Paper (0870705806)

Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 16, 2005–January 2, 2006

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June 8, 2006
James Billington, Lidia Iovleva, and Robert Rosenblum
Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2004. 426 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth

Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 16, 2005–January 11, 2006

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May 30, 2006
Judith B. Tankard
Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement: Reality and Imagination
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. 224 pp.; 148 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0810949652)
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May 29, 2006
Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Art of Colonial Latin America
New York: Phaidon, 2004. 448 pp.; 240 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0714841579)
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March 1, 2006
Chiyo Ishikawa, ed.
Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492–1819
Exh. cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 300 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (0803225059)

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Wash., October 16, 2004–January 2, 2005; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla., February 2, 2005–May 1, 2005

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November 30, 2005
Susan Groag Bell
The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies: Christine de Pizan’s Renaissance Legacy
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 271 pp.; 8 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0520234103)
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October 19, 2005
David Roxburgh, ed.
Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600–1600
Royal Academy of Arts, 2004. 496 pp.; many color ills.; 375 ills. Cloth (1903973562)

Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 22–April 12, 2005

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May 27, 2005
Chiyo Ishikawa, ed.
Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492–1819
Exh. cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 300 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (0803225059)

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Wash., October 16, 2004–January 2, 2005; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla., February 2, 2005–May 1, 2005

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April 25, 2005
Dorothy Verkerk
Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 272 pp.; 38 b/w ills. Cloth $94.00 (0521829178)
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February 14, 2005
Elizabeth Coatsworth and Michael Pinder
The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith: Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England, it's Practice and Practitioners
Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2002. 293 pp.; 8 color ills.; 66 b/w ills. Cloth $145.00 (0851158838)
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August 11, 2004
Doran H. Ross
Gold of the Akan from the Glassell Collection
Exh. cat. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002. 296 pp.; 385 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $79.00 (0890901155)
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, March 13–September 19, 2004; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, March 9–May 31, 2005; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 2, 2005–March 26, 2006; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 26–November 26, 2006
 
July 19, 2004
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse
Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200–1500
Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1999. 832 pp.; 190 ills. Cloth €217.00 (1872501419)
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May 21, 2004
Alessandro Bagnoli
Duccio: At the Origins of Sienese Painting
Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2002. 539 pp.; 300 ills. €48.00 (8882154831)

Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, and Cathedral Crypt, Siena, Italy, October 4, 2003–January 11, 2004

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December 11, 2003
Alyce A. Jordan
Visualizing Kingship in the Windows of the Sainte-Chapelle
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2001. 300 pp.; 87 b/w ills. Cloth €120.00 (2503511848)
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November 3, 2003
William Noel and Daniel Weiss, eds.
The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library’s Medieval Picture Bible
Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum in association with Third Millenium Publishing, 2001. 224 pp.; 50 color ills.; 121 b/w ills. Paper $55.00 (0911886540)
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Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, October 27–December 29, 2002; Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD, September 12–October 24, 2003; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, March 6–June 6, 2004; Mitchell Art Gallery, St. Johns College, Annapolis, MD, November 14–December 26, 2004; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, January 30–April 25, 2005
 
November 3, 2003
Herbert Schutz
Tools, Weapons and Ornaments: Germanic Material Culture in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe 400–750
Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2000. 464 pp.; 32 color ills.; 166 b/w ills. Cloth $179.00 (9004122982)
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October 17, 2003
Caterina Limentani Virdis and Mari Pietrogiovanna
Great Altarpieces: Gothic and Renaissance
New York: Vendome Press, 2001. 424 pp.; 397 color ills. Cloth $150.00 (0865652244)
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October 8, 2003
Linda Baumgarten
What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America
Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in association with Yale University Press, 2001. 256 pp.; 355 color ills.; 36 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300095805)
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DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA, October 26, 2002–October 26, 2003
 
October 6, 2003
Joshua Brown
Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 384 pp.; 105 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (0520231031)
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September 17, 2003
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, ed.
Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th–19th Centuries
Exh. cat. New York and London: Japan Society and British Museum Press, 2001. 304 pp.; 230 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0810967480)
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Japan Society, New York, October 17–December 31, 2002; British Museum, London, February 5–April 13, 2003
 
September 5, 2003
Eric Thunø
Image and Relic: Mediating the Sacred in Early Medieval Rome
Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2001. 216 pp.; 8 color ills.; 133 b/w ills.; 141 ills. Paper (8882652173)
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September 2, 2003
Katharine Lochnan
Seductive Surfaces: The Art of Tissot
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 280 pp.; 25 color ills.; 106 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (0300081847)
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Nancy Marshall and Malcolm Warner
James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 216 pp.; 93 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0300081731)
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 22–November 28,1999; Musée National de Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec City, December 15, 1999–March 12, 2000; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, March 25–July 2, 2000.
 
April 4, 2003
Amelia Peck and Carol Irish
Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1876–1900
Exh. cat. Yale University Press, 2000. 288 pp.; 80 color ills.; 108 b/w ills. $45.00 (0300090811)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 9, 2001-January 6, 2002

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October 4, 2002
Eli Wilner, ed.
The Gilded Edge: The Art of the Frame
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999. 204 pp.; 175 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (081182070x)
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September 26, 2002
Mary Rogers, ed.
Fashioning Identities in Renaissance Art
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 241 pp.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $84.95 (0754600211)
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June 11, 2002
Lisa Zeitz
Tizian, Teurer Freund: Tizian und Federico Gonzaga; Kunstpatronage in Mantua im 16. Jahrhundert
Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 1999. 256 pp.; 131 b/w ills. Cloth (3932526372)
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Diane H. Bodart
Tiziano e Federico Il Gonzaga: Storia di un rapporto di committenza
Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 1997. 400 pp.; 49 b/w ills. Paper (8883192559)
February 13, 2002
Susan Weber Soros
E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer
Exh. cat. Yale University Press, 1998. 430 pp. (0300080093)
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Susan Weber Soros
The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin
Yale University Press, 1999. 300 pp.; 240 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (0300081596)
May 7, 2001
George Michell and Mark Zebrowski
The New Cambridge History of India: Architecture and Art in the Deccan Sultanates, I
Cambridge University Press, 1998. 298 pp.; 16 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (0521563216)
July 11, 2000
Calvin B. Kendall
The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions
University of Toronto Press, 1997. 401 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0802042627)
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April 18, 2000
Richard Hill
Designs and Their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics
Yale University Press, 1998. 288 pp.; 106 b/w ills. Cloth $30.00 (0300079486)
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March 31, 2000
Mojmir Frinta
Punched Decoration on Late Medieval and Miniature Painting
Prague: Maxdorf, 556 pp. (8085800942)
March 30, 2000
Peter Wollen
Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion
Berkeley: University of California Press in association with The Hayward Gallery, 1998. 120 pp.; 99 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (1853321834)
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March 27, 2000
John Maeda
Design By Numbers
MIT Press, 1998. 250 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (0262133547)
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November 3, 1999
Peter McNair, Robert Joseph, and Bruce Greenville, eds.
Down from the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast
Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press in association with Vancouver Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group, 1997. 192 pp. Paper $30.00 (0295977094)
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October 13, 1999
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 240 pp.; 20 color ills.; 104 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0824820819)
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September 3, 1999
Richard Cleary
The Place Royale and Urban Design in the Ancient Régime
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 300 pp.; 12 color ills.; 194 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (0521572681)
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August 26, 1999
Elizabeth Bartman
Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 242 pp.; 194 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0521583942)
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July 27, 1999
Reindeer Company
The Art Historian, 2 Vols., ("Ancient to Medieval" and "Renaissance to Modern and Non-Western")
The Reindeer Company, 1997. 600 ills. CD-ROM $40.00
May 13, 1999
Jonathan M. Bloom
The Minbar from Kutubiyya Mosque
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Ediciones El Viso and Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco, 1997. 124 pp.; 80 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth (0300086377)
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April 22, 1999
Linda Merrill
The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography
New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Smithsonian Institution, 1997. 408 pp.; 105 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300076118)
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March 16, 1999