including a pair of eighteenth-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes

and research in the preservation of stone in monuments

218 color and 160 b/w illustrations

and many predictions of an apocalypse preceding a golden age have been timed to coincide with the millennium

The references section alone is a great read

Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage blake including a pair of eighteenth-centuryEdited by Nicholas Stanley Price, M. Kirby Talley Jr., and Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro This volume is the first comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture to be published in the English language. Designed for students of art history as well as conservation, the book consists of forty six texts, some never before translated into English and many originally published only in obscure or foreign journals. The thirty major