Shah Abbas: The Remaking of Iran (Exhibition Catalogue, The British Museum, London, UK, 17 Feb - 14 Jun 2009)

274pp, fully illustrated in-text. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine, patterned endpapers. 4to. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, not price clipped. A richly illustrated book bringing together a vast array of treasures  and art works donated to shrines in Iran during Shah `Abbas’s reign (1587-1629). It traces the story of the Safavid dynasty though a period of dynamic religious and political turmoil when art and architecture flourished and the magnificent shrines at Ardabil, Mashhad and Qum where established during  a so-called ‘Golden Age’ of Persian art.