Quarter bound in publisher's cream cloth over red cloth boards, 4to. 574 pp. Profusely illustrated with 668 reproductions, 14 pages in full color. Germain Bazin was Conservator-in-Chief of the Louvre. Translated from the French by Francis Scarfe. This is an unmarked, unopened copy. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition. The dust jacket (now in Mylar) has a couple of closed tears. AS NEW/VERY GOOD. Contents include: I. The Origins of Art; II. Primitive Artistic Civilizations; III. The Classical Civilizations of the Mediterranean; IV. Earliest Forms of Christian Art; V. The Rise of the West-Romanesque and Gothic Art; VI. Islam; VII. The Artistic Civilization of Europe in the Fifteenth Century; VIII. The Renaissance in Europe in the Sixteenth Century; IX. The Baroque Period; X. The Nineteenth Cerntury Crisis; XI. The Civilizations of the Far East; and XII. Art Now.. Book Club Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall