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peteyfrogboy ([personal profile] peteyfrogboy) wrote2008-08-15 05:09 pm

My Bookshelf

I was just noticing the variety of books sitting on the shelf here at my computer desk.

Patterns of Fashion (1560 -1620)
A stack of 7 SFF books that I read over the last couple of years that I need to find new homes for
The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (need to get that back to Rhydderch one of these days)
The Portrait Miniature in England (ditto)
The Book of Costume
Dressing Renaissance Florence
Save The Cat! Goes to the Movies
The Arte of Limning (Nicholas Hilliard)
Schuyler's Monster
Orchesography (Arbeau)
Courtly Dance of the Renaissance (Caroso)
Zen in the Art of Writing (Bradbury)
Fifteenth-Century Dance and Music Vol. II
The three core books of D&D 3.0
Traveller d20 rulebook

[identity profile] kass-rants.livejournal.com 2008-08-16 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
I've got:

Patterns of Fashion (1560 -1620)
Persian Painting by Shiela R. Canby
Women's Costume of the Near and Middle East by Jennifer Scarce
Persian Painting -- Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century by Stuart Cary Welsh
...and a good deal of scholarly article on Persian art, textiles, and costume.

Heh.

[identity profile] peteyfrogboy.livejournal.com 2008-08-16 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hee. [livejournal.com profile] adelavanbrugge has the Safavid manuscripts book in her pile right now.

[identity profile] francesca-tessa.livejournal.com 2008-08-18 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't know you played D&D. That's the only gaming I ever did and that was like way back in 1990-91...and then I discovered the SCA.