The Bayeux tapestry

by David Wilson

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First American edition, sm. folio, pp. 234; profusely illustrated with full-page color photographic reprodutions of the tapestry; fine copy in original grey cloth decorated in gilt on upper cover and spine, pictorial gilt-lettered slipcase with ribbon. A beautiful work of art, as well as an historical document, the embroidered tapestry--made in the 11th century for the town of Bayeux--measures 230 feet long and is a unique

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