Joan Evans books.

The following are in my possession  as at June 2014

In red - not yet obtained or currently unobtainable           

 

JOAN EVANS 01

1921

            English Jewellery from the Fifth Century A.D. to 1800 London, Methuen & Co., 1921;

 Nabu public Domain Reprint. 2014 Brand New Book. Print on Demand. Scanned

 

JOAN EVANS 02

1922  

Magical Jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance particularly in England
Oxford Clarendon Press 1922

  Kessinger Legacy Reprint. Bought 2013 from Amazon

 

JOAN EVANS 03

1924  

            Anglo Norman Lapidaries 1924

 

 

JOAN EVANS 04 (1)

1925  

Life in Mediaeval France.  
(Also in French :Civilisation en France au Moyen Âge)
Oxford University Press. 1925; 
1st edition. Condition good – slight yellowing and rusting. To the memory of Eleanor Frances Jourdain

 

 

JOAN EVANS 04 (2)

1925  

Life in Medieval France. 

(Also in French :Civilisation en France au Moyen Âge)

 Phaidon 1969 3rd Edition 

 No inscriptions or annotations; binding tight; dust jacket spine a little faded; Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket

 

JOAN EVANS 05    

1926

            St Joan of Orleans: scenes from the 15th century “Mystére de Siége d’Orleans.” Selected and translated by J.E. and the text by Peter Studer.
Clarendon Press 1926 Not currently available

  

 

JOAN EVANS 06    

1928

            The Unconquered Knight: a chronicle of the deeds of Don Pero  Nino, Count of Buelna, by his standard bearer, Diaz de Gamez. Translated and selected from El Vitorial by J.E.

Routledge1928
                             
Paperback: The Boydell press 2004.

JOAN EVANS 07 (Vol 1)   

1931

Pattern, a Study of Ornament in Western Europe from 1180 to 1900.
2 vols. Oxford, The Clarendon Press,

            1931

1st edition. Condition Good, with dust cover. Some yellowing. Bought Hay on Wye, August 1995 for £95.

 

JOAN EVANS 07 (Vol 2)   

1931

Pattern, a Study of Ornament in Western Europe from 1180 to 1900.

            2 vols. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1931

1st edition. Condition Good, with dust cover. Some yellowing. Bought Hay on Wye, August 1995 for £95.

 

JOAN EVANS 08    

1931

            Monastic Life at Cluny 1931
            Hardcover. 1st Edition Used, good.  Archon Books 1968 USA

 

JOAN EVANS 09

1931  

            English Posies and Posy Rings
A Catalogue with introduction by Joan Evans
Oxford University Press 1931

 Reprint, facsimile © Andrew Schuller 2012.

  

JOAN EVANS 10

1933  

            English Mediaeval Lapidaries 1933
            Joan Evans & Mary S SERJEANTSON (ed)

             Cloth, VG. Early English Text Soc 190

 

JOAN EVANS 11

1933  

            Nature in Design A Study of Naturalism in Decorative Art, from the bronze Age to the Renaissance.
London Oxford University Press 1933  1st Edition

 

JOAN EVANS 12    

1936

            The Palace of Minos 
Index  (of artefacts) Vol. 5  1936 Complied by Joan Evans in collaboration with Sir Arthur Evans.

 Cambridge University press – Digitally printed version 2013. Bought new 2013

 

 

JOAN EVANS 13

1938  
The Romanesque Architecture of the Order of Cluny
.
Cambridge University Press, 1938;

 Paperback reprint by Cambridge UP 2011 bought new 2013 from Amazon

 ISBN 978-1-107-60138-3

 

 

JOAN EVANS 14    

1938

            Joinville’s History of Saint Louis Edited by J.E.Gregynog Press 1937; Oxford University Press 1938 Not currently available

 

 

JOAN EVANS 15    

1939  
Taste and Temperament.
A Brief Study of Psychological Types in their relation to the Visual Arts.

Jonathan Cape. 1939.

 1st Edition Good condition. No dustcover. Bought on line 2014

 

 

JOAN EVANS 16    

1939

            Chateaubriand         A Biography.
Macmillan. 1939;

1st Edition Good condition. No dustcover.

 

 

JOAN EVANS 17 (1)          

1943

            Time and Chance    The Story of Arthur Evans and his Forebears. Biography
Longmans 1943

1st Edition - owned by F.A.Roper (Aunt Frances) in 1946 and given to me c. 1980. Some rusting and yellowing. War damage on dust cover. Well used. Handwritten additions to family trees in front and back by FAR

 

 

JOAN EVANS 18    

1946

            The Pursuit of Happiness. The Story of Madame de Sérilly 1762-1799.  Biography
Longmans, Green and Co. 1946

 1st Edition – owned by F.A.Roper (Aunt Frances) in 1946 and given to me c. 1980. Condition good with dustcover.

 

 

 

JOAN EVANS 19    

1947  

            The Unselfish Egoist       
A life of Joseph Joubert    .  Biography

            Longmans,Green. 1947

             1st Edition. Cloth, dw, 202pp.; dust jacket worn but otherwise in very good condition.

 

 

JOAN EVANS 20    

1948  

            Art in Mediaeval France, 987-1498.
London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1948; 

            1st Edition. Good condition. No dust cover. To the Archaeologists and Antiquaries who fought for France 1939-1945

 

 

JOAN EVANS 21    

1949  

            English Art: 1307-1461.
The Oxford History of English Art

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949;   
 
1st Edition. Condition good. Dust jacket – some tearing. Inscribed1950. Bought Hay on Wye  1990

 

 

JOAN EVANS 22

1950

            Cluniac Art of the Romanesque Period.
Cambridge University Press, 1950; edited, with Whitehouse, John Howard.

             Paperback reissue by Cambridge UP. Bought from Amazon 2013

 

 

 

JOAN EVANS 23

1950

            Style in Ornament
            Oxford University Press, 1950

           
1st Edition. Hardback complete Cover a bit worn and rubbed on extremities; A copy with a fair amount of wear, good condition.

 

 

 

JOAN EVANS 24

1952

            Dress in Mediaeval France.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952;
1st Edition   xiv-94-84 pp., illustrated. Hard cover, edge worn dust jacket. Very good condition.

 

 

 

JOAN EVANS 25    

1953  

            A History of Jewellery 1100-1870
Faber & Faber 1953;

           2nd Edition 1970. ISBN 0-571-04693-2

  Dust jacket – fair. Condition Good. Ex Bordesley College of Education. Bought at Hay on Wye.1990

 

 

JOAN EVANS 26

1954

            John Ruskin 1954  
            1st Edition. The first biography of Ruskin to be written by a biographer with access to Ruskin’s own diaries. 8vo. 447 + (1)pp,

 photo frontispiece, 16 photo plates. Publisher’s cloth, in dust wrapper (the wrapper abraded at outer margins).

 Jill Allibone’s copy, with her bookplate.

JOAN EVANS 27    

1955

            An Adventure (Ed)
            Macmillian 1955 (first pub. in 1913)

             I have the original book by Lamont and Jourdain. Joan then wrote "End to An Adventure: Solving the Mystery  

            of the Trianon." Encounter. 1 Oct. 1976, Volume 47, Number 4: 33-47, where she argues the whole adventure as a fantasy with  

             plausable explainations as to why the ladies thought they saw into the past.

JOAN EVANS 28    

1955

            The Endless Web. A History of John Dickinson & Co. Ltd. 1804-1954.
Jonathan Cape. 1955
1st Edition. Very many books must have been printed as I am often coming across them in secondhand book shops.

JOAN EVANS 29    

1956

            History of the Society of Antiquaries 1956 Oxford University Press. 1st Edition

 

JOAN EVANS 30    

1956  

            Ruskin, John. Diaries. 3 vols. .  Biography
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956  1st Editon

 

JOAN EVANS 31    

            Collection of Talks/papers/articles  A folder of papers by or about Joan Evans; compiled by myself.

  

JOAN EVANS 32    

1959

            The Lamp of Beauty. Writings on Art by John Ruskin. Selected and edited by J. E.
Phaidon Oxford 1959
2nd edition – photographically reprinted. 1980. Paperback. Phaidon. Oxford. Good condition.

 

JOAN EVANS 33

1959

            Madame Royale  Biography.
Museum Press, 1959  1st Edition

 

 

JOAN EVANS 34    

1964  


Prelude & Fugue.
 An Autobiography.
London . Museum Press Ltd 1964;

 

 

JOAN EVANS 35    

1964

            Monastic Architecture in France  From the Renaissance to the Revolution                                
Cambridge University Press 1964

  Reprint of the original 2013 CUP

 

 

JOAN EVANS 36    

1966
The Conways
: a History of Three Generations. Biography
London: Museum Press, 1966.

1st Edition with dust jacket. Condition good.

 

 

JOAN EVANS 37    

1966

            The Victorians. 
1st Edition. Cambridge University Press, 1966

 

JOAN EVANS 38    

1966

            The Flowering of the Middle Ages. Edited by J.E.

Thames & Hudson, London", 1966.

 2.(Also in German - Blüte des

Mittelalters) cost about £125 @2014

             3.Spanish edition translated by Mireia Bofill. Paperback, 1988.  good condition. Part of a  series called Historia de las            

 Civilizaciones.

 

JOAN EVANS 39

1970

            Monastic Iconography in France from the Renaissance to the Revolution.

Cambridge University Press. 1970

Unavailable at 2014

 

 

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