Frameworks: Form, Function and Ornament in European Portrait Frames

Subject: Picture Frames
Authors: Paul Mitchell & Lynn Roberts
Publisher: Merrell Holberton
Date: 1996
Condition: Very clean within, the dust jacket has some areas of delamination at edges front and back

This major work was the first substantial monograph on the art of picture framing, looking at how frames have been used over centuries, how they relate to the taste and interiors of the period and the techniques used to make them. It includes many illustrations and a huge amount of information, a substantial reference work.