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Seventeenth Century

The Shadow of Rubens: Print Publishing in 17th-century Antwerp
by Ann Diels
This book presents both an overview of the print production in the 17th century Southern Low Countries and a focused approach to the work of three collaborators of Rubens. Apart from their work as painters, these artists quickly penetrated the world of prints and each dominated a specific market segment. Abraham Van Diepenbeeck was a prolific designer of individual prints and print series. Erasmus Quelinus II often drew models for ...
Hardback. Price GB £98.00

The English Country House Chapel: Building a Protestant Tradition
by Annabel Ricketts
This unique study shows how the aristocracy and gentry provided their houses with places of worship after the upheavals of the Reformation. Dr Ricketts makes illuminating discoveries, explodes deeply-rooted misconceptions, and shows how, by the end of the 17th century, and after many false starts, a new and more enduring form of private Protestant chapel had evolved as a fundamental part of the English country house. Before her untimely death in ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Figured Bass Accompaniment in France (SMUS 6)
by Robert Zappulla
This comprehensive study basse continue practice supplements an already sizeable body of literature on thorough bass accompaniment, the emphasis of which has clearly been Italian and German theoretical works. The numerous French accompaniment treatises written during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries seem to have been, with only a few choice exceptions, unjustifiably dismissed by many modern scholars as little more than harmonic tutors, and the ...
Hardback. Price GB £52.50

Rubens in London: Art and Diplomacy
by Gregory Martin
The Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens is probably the most important foreign artist to have worked in England. The story of how this came to be, of what he did when he was in England and what he painted for King Charles I, is the story of this book. Charles and his father, the first Stuart monarchs of Great Britain, led and promoted a great wave of interest in the arts, in particular the visual arts, which culminated in Rubens painting nine large ...
Hardback. Price GB £100.00

Receuil d'Emblemes des Pieux Desirs de Herman Hugo (Anvers, 1627): Facsimile des Poemes avec Introduction, Index et Glossaire
edited by A. Guierdoni and A. Smeesters
The anthology Pieux Desirs, published simultaneously in Antwerp and Paris in 1627, is the French adaptation of the Pia Desideria from 1624, a collection of Latin meditational emblems. The initial collation was done by the Jesuit Herman Hugo and comprises 46 engravings, from Boetius to Bolswert. The present 'translation' constitutes the first edition to put the work at the disposal of a larger public. The Pia Desideria had a ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £50.00

The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain
edited by J.A.G. Ardila
Many critics regard Cervantes's Don Quixote as the most influential literary book on British literature. Indeed the impact on British authors was immense, as can be seen from 17th-century plays by Fletcher, Massinger and Beaumont, through the great 18th-century novels of Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Lennox, and on into more modern and contemporary novelists. 20th-century critics, fascinated by Cervantes, were moved to write what we now ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting Hall
by G. Martin
Rubens' nine paintings on the ceiling of the Banqueting Hall, in Whitehall, London, provided the main decoration of this magnificent room, which was the focal point of Stuart Court ceremonial. Commissioned by King James I and his son, the future Charles I, following the destruction of the early Jacobean Banqueting Hall, their role in enhancing court spectacle came to an end with the fire that destroyed the rest of Whitehall Palace in 1598. The ...
Hardback. Price GB £167.00

John Baker's late 17th century glasshouse at Vauxhall
by Kieron Tyler and Hugh Willmott
John Bakers Thameside glasshouse in Vauxhall is the first of Londons 17th-century glasshouses to be excavated. This publication describes the finds from the site, demonstrates how Vauxhall competed with Londons other glasshouses and discusses Londons late 17th-century glass industry. The glasshouse opened sometime between 1663 and 1681, and had closed by 1704. Excavations in 1989 found a furnace, crucibles, tools, working waste and finished ...
Paperback. Price GB £12.95

Trade in Good Taste: Relations in Architecture and Culture between the Durch Republic and the Baltic World in the Seventeenth Century
by B. Noldus
During the seventeenth century Dutch influence on the Baltic region, both economic and aesthetic, was unrivaled. In the wake of the Dutch monopoly on Baltic trade, cultural contacts between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic world flourished. The Dutch Republic was even to fulfil an exemplary function in the Baltic world (particularly in the Swedish Empire, the dominating power in the region), not solely limited to the commerce of commodities but ...
Paperback. Price GB £64.00

A Description of Baroque Malta by Albert Rochefort (1663)
edited by Denis De Lucca
A vivid description of Malta during 1660. 48p (Midsea Books 2004)
Paperback. Price GB £10.00