Early Byzantine Churches in Macedonia and Southern Serbia: A Study of the Origins and the Initial Development of East Christian Art, 1963, HC, VG.

Hoddinott, R. F. New York: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1963.  

English, Very Good, HC, 4to, 12 1/4" x 10", [vi] xxix, [3] 262 pp.

Red cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering and decoration to spine, ex-libris blind stamp to title page, some age-toning to text block, light soiling to top-edge, otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Very Good pictorial maroon dust jacket, featuring full-color detail of mosaic with Jesus Christ to front, detail of an intricate column capital to back, white lettering to front, back, and spine, black lettering to interior flaps, 1/4" chip and 3/4" closed tear to front panel, tiny tears from wear to interior flaps, minor wear to edges, tips, head, and tail, some soiling to front and back panels, price-clipped, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar-sleeve. [vi] xxix, [3] 262 pp., replete with black-and-white and color images, architectural plans, and maps. Includes Preface, List of Colour Plates, List of Monochrome Plates, List of Figures in Text, List of Maps, XI (six) chapters: "Mediterranean and Orient," "Macedonia Between Rome and Constantinople," "The Monuments," "The Monuments -- II: Justinian to the Slav Settlement (527 to Seventh Century)," "The End of an Era," Select Bibliography of the Monuments, and Index. From inside dust jacket: "Early Byzantine Churches in Macedonia and Southern Serbia is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated account in any language of an important group of fifty churches built or rebuilt between the early fourth and the late seventh century, some still in use today. They are examined individually and related to their contemporary world as well as to earlier traditions of the Ancient Near East."