Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, 1997
ISBN 10: 0815180543 ISBN 13: 9780815180548
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Parnassus Imprints, Hyannis, Massachusetts, 1995
ISBN 10: 0940160609 ISBN 13: 9780940160606
Anbieter: Bluestocking Books, Sandwich, MA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Kristina Lindborg Sargent & John E. Cook, maps (illustrator). 1st Edition. An account of a 1987 nor'easter and its after effects that changed the coastal shoreline of outer Cape Cod and intensified the impact of climate change. xiv, 157 pp; Index.
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Oxford University Press, London, 1961, 1961
ISBN 10: 0193532220 ISBN 13: 9780193532229
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 1 score ; 23 cm. Principally for mixed voices ISBN 9780193532229, 9780193532212, 0193532212, 0193532220 LCCN m 61002394 LC M2065 .C237 196 OCLC 1468418762 green and white paper wrappers ; SATB accompanied & unaccompanied ; Edited and arranged by Reginald Jacques and David Willcocks Table of Contents: A boy was born/ Britten -- A Christmas Carol/ Kodaly -- A great and mighty wonder/ Kodaly -- A merry Christmas/ Warrell -- A virgin most pure/ Wood -- Adeste fideles/ Willcocks -- And there were shepherds/ Bach/Willcocks -- Angels/ from the realms of glory/ Jacques -- As with gladness men of old/ Kocher/Willcocks -- Away in a manger/ Kirkpatrick/Willcocks -- Away in a manger/ Jacques -- Blessed be that maid Mary/ Willcocks -- The Blessed son of God/ Vaughan Willams -- The Boar's head carol/ Poston -- Carol/ with lullaby/ Tate -- Coventry Carol/ Anon -- Coventry Carol/ Shaw -- Ding dong! merrily on high/ Wood -- The first nowell/ Willcocks -- Gallery carol/ Jacques -- Gloucestershire wassail/ Vaughan Williams -- God rest you merry/ gentlemen/ Willcocks -- Good King Wenceslas/ Jacques -- Hark! the herald angels sing/ Mendelssohn/Willcocks -- The holly and the ivy/ Jacques -- I saw three ships/ Willcocks -- I saw three ships/ Jacques -- In dulci jubilo/ Pearsall/Jacques -- Infant holy/ infant lowly/ Willcocks -- It came upon the midnight clear/ Sullivan -- King Jesus hath a garden/ Wood -- The linden tree carol/ Jacques -- Lute-book lullaby/ Ballet/Shaw -- No sad thought his soul affright/ Vaughan Williams -- O come/ all ye faithful/ Willcocks -- O little one sweet/ Bach -- O little town of Bethlehem/ Vaughan Williams/Armstrong -- O men from the fields/ Cooke -- Once in royal David's city/ Gauntlett/Mann -- Past three a clock/ Wood -- Rejoice and be merry/ Jacques -- Rocking/ Willcocks -- See amid the winter's snow/ Goss/Willcocks -- The Shepherd's farewell/ Berlioz -- Sussex Carol/ Willcocks -- The three kings/ Cornelius/Atkins -- Torches/ Joubert -- Unto us is born a son/ Willcocks -- Up! good Christen folk/ and listen/ Woodward -- We've been a while a-wandering/ Vaughan Williams -- What cheer?/ Walton -- When Christ was born/ Jacques -- While shepherds watched their flocks/ Ravenscroft -- While the shepherds were watching/ Armstrong Gibbs -- Zither Carol/ Sargent ; Reginald Jacques was born in 1894 in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire and studied at Queen's College, Oxford, where he later became organist and director of music in 1926. Reginald Jacques was also conductor of the Oxford Orchestra Society from 1930 to 1936. From 1931 to 1960 he was conductor of The Bach Choir in London. In 1936 he founded his own Jacques Orchestra, which he conducted until 1960. In 1954 he was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He died in 1969. John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and studied music at Clare College, Cambridge. His compositions embrace choral, orchestral, and instrumental music, and he has edited or co-edited various choral anthologies, including four Carols for Choirs volumes with Sir David Willcocks and the Oxford Choral Classics series. From 1975 to 1979 he was Director of Music at Clare College, and in 1981 he formed his own choir, the Cambridge Singers. He now divides his time between composition and conducting and is sought after as a guest conductor for the world's leading choirs and orchestras. Born in 1919, David Willcocks began his musical career as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, later winning scholarships to Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge. Following war service, he was elected Fellow of King's College, and later became Organist of Salisbury & Worcester Cathedrals, conducting the Three Choirs Festival whilst at Worcester. Willcocks returned to King's College, Cambridge as Director of Music from 1957-1974, with the first collection of his arrangements in the Carols for Choirs series publishing in 1961. He was Director of Music at the Royal College of Music from 1974-1984, died 2015 ; FINE. Book.
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Verlag: The Century Co., New York, NY, 1923
Anbieter: Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Price, Norman (Cover), Sargent, John Singer (Frontispiece) (illustrator). Binding tight; interior clean. Illustrated wraps show some shelf wear and chipping; light curling and 1/2" tear on top edge. This children's magazine is in pretty nice shape for being 100 years old! Includes article about John Singer Sargent, with a frontis by him, as well as some of his other paintings (in black and white.) Cover illustration by Norman Price. 112pp., prefaced and followed by great unpaginated ads.
Verlag: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1906
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
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In den WarenkorbGebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Anbieter: Jorge Welsh Books, Lisboa, Portugal
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 26 x 29.7 cm, 2.487 Kg; 396 pages with colour illustrations; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket has edge wear, and scuffs and scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. Interior with minor signs of wear. Very good condition overall.; This book accompanies a major V&A exhibition that explores three hundred years of mutual fascination between East and West, a period of discoveries, encounters and exchanges initiated by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama''s discovery of a sea route to India in 1948. This established, for the first time, direct relations between Europe and maritime Asia and ushered in a dynamic period of commercial, artistic and technological exchange. This compelling story is presented through wide-ranging essays by leading international scholars, including specialists from the V&A. The text is complemented by a sumptuous range of images, many of these remarkable and luxurious pieces being published for the first time. Discoveries, the book''s opening section, examines the western fascination for the materials and technologies of Asia, which existed even before direct contact was established, and charts the route that early Europeans took to the Indies and the new, sophisticated worlds they found there. Encounters, the second section, looks at the human dimension of the story, the meeting of peoples from East and West in different spheres, from highly formalised court audiences to intimate relationships. The exotic visitors from the West aroused much curiosity in Asia as demonstrated in the many Asian depictions of foreigners and their ships. This section also explores how these pale-skinned, strangely dressed peoples were perceived in the East and how images of them were appropriated into existing Asian iconographies. The final section, Exchanges, explores cross-influences in taste, technology and trade. In Europe there was an immediate demand for luxuries such as porcelain, lacquer and textiles made in Asia but suited to western living. In Asia, it was European technology that was most sought after. Clocks, guns, maps and lenses were all imported and simulated by different Asian cultures. In its close examination of the relationships diplomatic, religious and personal between East and West, this book provides both an important scholarly record of this vibrant period in world history and a beautiful document of the works of art and industry that it produced.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1356808182 ISBN 13: 9781356808182
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Castle Hill Press /J & N Wilson, Fordingbridge, 2008
Anbieter: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, Vereinigtes Königreich
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In den WarenkorbHardback. Zustand: Fine. Kennington, Eric, Roberts, William, John, Augustus, Sargent, Dobson, Gill, Colin, Rothenstein, William, Nicholson, W. Spencer, G. (illustrator). First Limited Edition. A fine copy. Bound limited edition set of the portraits + Camel March taken from a proof set from the 1926 Subscribers edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, This is one of just 220 copies, this an unnumbered one, bound by the Fine Bindery and printed by the Burlington Press in 1977. These are superb reproductions of the plates from the '26 SP in full colour. Bound in pale beige paper covered boards with title printed to front and with darker brown cloth spine. T.E. Lawrence commissioned illustrations for Seven Pillars of Wisdom from leading artists of the day. They were reproduced in colour in his lavish 1926 edition of the subscribers' abridgement. The most important of the illustrations were portraits. These showed readers not just faces, but also the exotic clothing worn by the Arab irregulars. The forty-one Seven Pillars Portraits are reproduced here full-page in the original colours, together with William Roberts' remarkable double-page 'Camel March'. Emir Feisal by Augustus John, oils, full colour. These were printed from a set of proof plates put together by the original printer, Whittingham & Griggs.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: New York : C.N. Potter : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1982, 1982
ISBN 10: 0517547457 ISBN 13: 9780517547458
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edtion, 1st printing ; 487 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN: 0517547457; 9780517547458; National Library: 014878580 LCCN: 82-12196 ; LC: PR5812; Dewey: 828/.809 ; OCLC: 8587824 ; purple cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Poems -- Requiescat - Ravenna -- Wasted days -- Madonna mia -- Sonnet to liberty -- The arlot's ome -- On the sale by auction of Keat's love letters -- The new remorse -- To my wife, with a copy of my poems -- The Sphinx -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- Poems in prose -- The disciple -- The artist -- Prose fiction -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime -- The happy prince -- The nightmare and the rose -- The remarkable rocket -- The selfish giant -- The birthday of the Infanta -- The picture of Dorian gray -- Plays -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Salome -- The importance of being Earnest -- The Gribsby episode -- Lectures and essays -- The Irish poets of '48 -- Impressions of America -- Pen, pencil and poison -- The soul of man under socialism -- Phrases and philosophies for the use of the young -- Letters - De Profundis -- To Robert Ross from Reading Prison -- To the Daily Chronicle -- The case of Warder Martin : some cruelties of prison life -- To Robert Ross from Berneval, France -- To the Daily Chronicle -- Prison reform -- To Robert Ross from Rome ; "Critical introduction and background information accompany selections of Wilde's writings that includes The Selfish Giant, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray" ; large, heavy volume ; nick on corner of dustjacket, else FINE/FINE. Book.
Verlag: The Saalfield Publishing Company, Chicago, 1909
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Later printing. Illustrated by Nella Fontaine Binckley. Slightly cocked spine thus very good in a good only dust jacket with chips, tears, and toning.
Verlag: Curtis, USA, 1959
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Sargent, Dick (cover); Bates, Sam; Skor, Walter; Georgi,Edwin (illustrator). First Edition. 84 pages. Short Stories: Alexander Botts, Security Agent; The Day of the Hanging; Beauty and the Beatnik; Prowler in the House. Articles: Civil Defense - a National Disgrace; Hollywood's Late-Blooming Redhead; His Grace Will Do Anything - the Most Noble John Robert Russell, thirteenth Duke of Bedford, resorts to screwball antics to pay taxes on his ancestral estate; The Face of America - Cold, Clear and Deep - fantastic color photo of swimmers with (an intact) Mount St. Helens in background; Are Pipe Smokers People?; The Struggle To Get Jimmy Hoffa - Part 3 - The Labor Boss Leaves a Paper Trail of strange financial dealings; My Baseball Farmhands - John Mullen, boss of the Milwaukee Braves, describes the stars and flops he's uncovered in his job of developing big-league players; Secrets of a Lion Tamer - article on Mel Koontz with great color photos. Serials: Mark of Treachery (part 1 of 8); Death Walk (part 3 of 6). Ads: Colgate toothpaste; Portland Cement Association - featuring photo of Phil (Scooter) Rizzuto; AC Spark Plug ad features color illustrations of Janet Blair and John Raitt; Chrysler (Windsor two-door); Pall Mall cigarettes; Frigidaire pink refrigerator-freezer; Northern Tissue; L&M cigarettes - back cover color-photo ad featuring James Arness. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, July 11, 1959 Alexander Botts, Security Agent; The Day of the Hanging; Beauty and the Beatnik; Prowler in the House. Articles: Civil Defense - a National Disgrace; Hollywood's Late-Blooming Redhead; His Grace Will Do Anything.
Verlag: New York : W. Jennings Demorest, 1893-1894., 1894
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. iv, 754 pp. ; illustrated ; 30 cm. ; OCLC: 1566149 ; OCLC: 2446332 ; OCLC: 8478507 ; LC: TT500; Dewey: 051 ; green and orange cloth with Victorian decorations and lettering ; three or four pages loose ; tear to top of spine ; foxing ; missing pages 67-70, 279-280, 449-450, 617-618, 727-728 ; a few very unusual articles featuring prisons, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Temperance, Women's suffrage, Photography and Crime, Gypsies, etc ; a color oil print (chipped) possibly by Maud Humphrey; several photographs of famous persons and actors, including the Wilson Cherubs, U S Grant, Sheridan, Joseph Jefferson, Lucy Stone, Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alexandre Dumas, Phoebe and Alice Cary, Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, Emma Calvé, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving; many fashion sections ; heavy volume ; FAIR Partial Contents : The Naval Cadet at Work and at Play, The prize article on the naval cadet, written by a naval cadet / T. G. Roberts -- Familiar talks on the Different Schools of Art : American Artists / Polly King -- Wedding and Engagement Rings / J Carter Beard -- Our National Nut (Peanuts) / Harriet Cushman Wilkie -- Within Prison Walls : Thanksgiving Day in New England / Arthur Field -- A Diary of an Athletic Girl / Constance Burton -- Cholly's Last Serenade / J H Connelly -- Society Fads / Madame La Mode -- Winter House-Flowers : What kinds to select and wat care to give them / Eben E. Rexford -- Our Girls : Madge / Emma Howard Wight -- Home Art and Home Comfort : Ugle Spots Beautified / E A Fletcher -- A Japanese Floral Calendar -- Sanitarian : Care of Infants / Susanna W Dodds MD -- The World's Progress -- Artistic Notes -- What Women are Doing -- Chat -- Boxing the Compass / L Beard -- Our Baby Prize -- Two Exquisite Panel-Pictures -- Household : The Little Luncheon -- Our New Premium Picture -- Mirror of Fashions -- Perversions of Personal Liberty / W Jennings Demorest -- Demorest's Editorial Flashes -- [Christmas Eve at Bethlehem] -- December 1893 -- Children of the Stage / Elfried De B. Gude -- The ROad to Fame or Fortune : How to Become Successful Professional Women / Margaret Bisland -- The Man Underneath : A Romance of a Christmas Journey / Leslie Kane -- An Excursion to t he Land of Dolls / Aunt Ella -- Nemesis / Anna Jaffray -- Christmas Decorations / Eben E. Rexford -- The Prodigal : A Christmas Play / Marion E Monckton -- A Christmas Carol, music by Henry George Nicholls, words C L Hildreth -- Our Girls : Christmas Lists / Lida C Tulloch -- Sanitarian : The Care of Growing Children / Susanna W Dodds MD -- The Haty Woman's Christmas / Mary E Child -- Home Art and Home Comfort : Christmas Gifts for Everybody / Frances H Perry -- A Japanese Calendar -- Household : Some Christmas Sweets -- Artistic Notes / Alice Donlevy -- Our Country's Crisis / W Jennis Demorest -- January 1894 -- A Ceylon Tea Farm / Leslie Kane -- Among the Nurses / Evan Stanton -- A Woman's Romance in Wall Street / Arthur Field -- Undercurrents of Humor from the Fair / T A DeWeese -- What the Little Chap Did / Evangeline Harvey -- With the Raconteur : Stotries One can Tell Again -- The Shouting Band from Idaho : A New and Very Lively Game / Clara J Denton -- Our Girls : Berry-Picking Immortals / Lida A Churchill -- Sanitarian : Care of the Complexion / Margaret Humphrey -- Home Art and Home Comfort : Holiday Fancy-Work / E A Fletcher -- All That is Left of the Homeward Bound -- When WOmen Vote : What Reforms Could be Effected Through Woman Suffrage / Russell Sage, Noah Davis, Lillie Devereux Blake, Jennie de la M. Lozier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Dead Love (Poem) / D J Robertson -- It Has Aye Done So Hitherto (Poem) / Philip Burroughs Strong -- What to Buy in China -- Ethics of the Mending-Basket / Christine Terhune Herrick -- Mad Bob Telford / John Lloyd Thomas -- The Most Effective Missionary Enterprise -- Our Growing Cities : Austin, Texas / J H Raymond Jr. Book.
Verlag: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937, 1935, 1937
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 672 p., [52] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. ; OCLC: 42472485 ; LC: D568.4; Dewey: 940.41 ; "Privately printed, 1926; first published for general circulation, 1935."/ Preface by A.W. Lawrence./ Portraits by Eric Kennington, Augustus John, William Roberts, John Singer Sargent, William Nicholson, Henry Lamb, William Rothenstein, R.M. Young, Colin Gill, Frank Dobson, and Gilbert Spencer, and illustration by Sydney Carline. ; Contents: Preface / by A.W. Lawrence -- Introduction: the foundations of Arab revolt -- Book I: My first visit to Arabia -- Book II: Feisal's first extension northward -- Book III: Concentration against the Medina Railway -- Book IV: The expedition against Akaba -- Book V: Exploiting the new base -- Book VI: The failure of the bridges -- Book VII: A winter campaign -- Book VIII: Orthodoxy arrives -- Book IX: Manoeuvring for a final stroke -- Book X: The liberation of Damascus -- Epilogue. ; Includes indexes.; "T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with a facility for languages, he joined and went on to lead the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks while the rest of the world was enmeshed in World War I. With its richly detailed evocation of the land and the people Lawrence passionately believed in, its incisive portraits of key players, from Faisal ibn Hussein, the future Hashemite king of Syria and Iraq, to General Sir Edmund Allenby and other members of the British imperial forces, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an indispensible primary historical source. It helps us to understand today's Middle East, while giving us thrilling accounts of military exploits (including the liberation of Aqaba and Damascus), clandestine activities, and human foibles." ; tan colored cloth in beautifully illustrated dustjacket ; bookplate ; thick, heavy volume ; FINE/FINE. Book.
Verlag: Taylor and Hessey, London, 1813
Anbieter: DACART Livres rares & manuscrits (ALAC), Saint-Lambert, QC, Kanada
Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. Octavo. Various paginations. Rebacked, spine in cloth. Binding worn. Four sermons bound together. With subscribers lists, including Rev. P. Bronté, father of the famous Brontés. Engraved ex-libris of William Williams (d. in 1837), Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Scarce.
Verlag: Richard Bentley, London, 1834
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
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Finley bound first edition of Beckford's beautifully descriptive account of his travels through Italy, Spain, and Portugal from the library of American painter John Singer Sargent with his ownership signature and bookplates. Octavo, two volumes bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling, scrolling, and central vignette to the front and rear panels, double gilt-ruled inner dentelles, all edges gilt. From the library of John Singer Sargent, signed by him with his ownership name to front free endpaper of Vol. II and with his bookplate to the pastedown of both volumes. Widely regarded as the foremost portraitist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American expatriate painter John Singer Sargent was born in Florence to American parents and spent most of his life in Europe, particularly in Paris and London. Trained at the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts under the influential portraitist Carolus-Duran, Sargent developed a distinctive style characterized by fluid brushwork, luminous handling of light, and a remarkable ability to convey the psychological presence of his sitters. His career achieved international prominence through portraits of aristocratic and cultural elites, including celebrated works such as Madame X (1884) and Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1892), though he later turned increasingly toward landscape painting, watercolors, and monumental mural projects such as those for the Boston Public Library. While Sargent is primarily remembered as a painter rather than a bibliophile, his personal library reflected his cosmopolitan education and artistic interests. Contemporary accounts and estate records indicate that he owned a working collection of books on art, architecture, travel, and literatureâ"particularly volumes on Renaissance and Spanish painting, artists such as Velázquez whom he admired, and travel narratives that informed his frequent journeys throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. In very good condition. An exceptional association. A collection of travel letters, Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal presents William Beckfordâs richly descriptive reflections on his journeys through southern Europe during the late eighteenth century. First published in London by Richard Bentley in 1834, the work offers vivid accounts of the landscapes, cities, and cultural life of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, interwoven with Beckfordâs observations on architecture, art, religion, and local customs. Written in the reflective and highly descriptive style characteristic of Romantic-era travel literature, the narrative blends personal impressions with broader cultural commentary, often lingering on churches, monasteries, and notable works of art encountered along the way. Through these letters, Beckford reveals both his cultivated aesthetic sensibility and his keen interest in the artistic and historical traditions of the Mediterranean world.